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Chuck Messenger wrote:
>
> Help! (please...!)
>
> I've just started delving into the Mozilla framework -- a treasure!
>
> Anyway, I'm striving to make sense of the string classes. The only existing
> docs consist largely of old email messages, which themselves refer to things
> which are planned (and presumably implemented by now??)
>
> The LXR browser is great, but leaves me a bit puzzled. Searching for
> nsString (as an identifier) in lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey, I find the class
> definition in mozilla/string/obsolete/nsString2.h. Doing a diff on my
> /src/mozilla/dist/include/string/nsString.h, I see that is, indeed, the
> current nsString.h file.
>
> So, why is it referred to as "obsolete"? What's the status on strings?
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Chuck
