On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Michael Schnell wrote:
2) Nothing is copied on an assignment to a string variable, except the
reference to the memory object.
Sorry, I erroneously thought about the variable itself being ref counted,
while in fact the variable is a pointer to the (hidden) String management
record, which is the ref counted entity and holds the content pointer to the
String array.
There is no content pointer.
The string array is appended to the "record"
Michael.
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