From: Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2010-07-09T13:20:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:31146] Re: Why is there no standard way of creating a String from a char *?

(2010/07/09 7:04), Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Why is there no standard way of creating a String from a char *?  All
> the rb_str_new* functions take a const char * and copy it.  I would
> like a function that would create a String from a char *, that is,
> without copying it.

Because there is GC.  You can't say if a string content should be freed or not
when you allow such creation.  If you need a non-copying region of a memory
that should not be called a String.