From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2008-05-06T01:33:52+09:00
Subject: Re: String copy-on-write question

Robert Klemme wrote:
> Interesting.  Do you also happen to know why not an additional field is 
> used that stores the length?

 I've not understood : it has a field which give it the length of
 the string, for example with

  str = '0' * 200
  str[100 .. -1]

 the first object (in str) will have 200 for its length
 the field length in the new object will have the value 100  
  
>                              Is the reason maybe usage of C library 
> string functions that work on zero terminated strings?

 only matz know this :-)


Guy Decoux