Re: OUString is mutable?

Hi Noel,

On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 14:17 +0200, Noel Grandin wrote:
> It just seems to me that we could easily enough steal a bit from the 
> length field to indicate that the buffer is immutable, and then we could 
> reduce our complexity by eliminating OUStringBuffer.

        We already steal bits from the ref-count for magic like this: static
strings, and interned strings ;-)

        The question is - would it be more obvious if:

void method(rtl::OUString &rFoo, rtl::OUString &rBaa)
{
        rFoo += "foo"; // no exception it's mutable.
        rBaa += "baa"; // exception because it's immutable.
}

        :-) i assume not. OTOH - I too am not a huge fan of the sal string
classes for general usability - but I've not done a ton of work with
them recently to be fair.

        ATB,

                Michael.

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