----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Sugalski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Yup. Destroyed strings just get their buffer pointers set to NULL. GC'll > collect things up. Also means COW string buffers can share pointers to the > same buffer. >
Dan/David With regard to COW strings - would the buffer-related parameters (eg bufstart, buflen, bufused) then not be linked to the buffer rather than the string? ie should we have two structs (STRING & BUFFER) rather than one combined one, with STRING pointing to BUFFER rather than directly to memory? Peter Gibbs
