All the string functions we have now should keep their names and signatures. They do reasonable things, and that's just fine. What we need is shadow functions that do the same thing, only get passed in the destination string. Or, rather, we need to rename the current functions and change the signature to take a destination string, and add in wrapper functions with the current names that do a string_new and pass that in to the real function.
Once we do that, we need to think about how to note that a string op should reuse the destination register. I'm half-tempted to postpend a R to the name, but that's a bit nasty.
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