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On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 13:46 +0200, Noel Grandin wrote:
Hi

I don't really understand the point of not being able to mutate OUString 
in-place, but being able to overwrite it via the assignment operator?

It seems to me it should be one or the other.
Either OUString is immutable, and it cannot be assigned to, except via a 
constructor, or it is mutable, and we can pretty much throw away 
OUStringBuffer.

Consider OUString as a smart const pointer to an immutable rtl_uString.

i.e.
const char *pFoo;
pFoo = "hello";
pFoo = "world"; //ok
pFoo[0] = 'A'; //won't compile
const_cast<char*>(pFoo)[0] = 'A'; //compiles but evil

C.


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