On 02/04/2011 11:24 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
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.
Right. The same applies to Qt. Whenever a QStringRef is converted to
QString, a copy is made.
