Max Samukha wrote:
.NET and Qt do have slices of some kind:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1hsbd92d.aspx http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qstringref.html#details I am not sure whether their XML libraries use those.
.net's slices are inadequate, because its strings are not interchangeable with slices. When they're not interchangeable, then you wind up being forced to make copies.
