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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: distinguishing operator[] on left and right
Message-ID: <27D3E61F.6226@tct.uucp>
Date: 5 Mar 91 18:40:30 GMT
References: <1991Feb28.212419.20920@ndl.com> <1991Mar2.000705.3496@mathcs.sjsu.edu> <JAR.91Mar4151055@skakke.ifi.uio.no>
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According to jar@ifi.uio.no (Jo Are Rosland):
>I mean, a very popular first project (and perhaps second and third
>:-)) after having learned C++, is to create some kind of string class.
>But how many of those string classes are actually in use?

We still use ours.  The "a = b; a += c" syntax is a little awkward,
but it's sure better than calculating sizes, calling new/delete and
strcpy/strcat.

Note, though, that a |String| is often implicitly converted to a
|const char *| when used as a function parameter, since functions that
expect strings may well be called with old-style C strings, and I
don't want to construct a temporary |String| in such cases.
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