wmperry(a)aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:
This is totally bogus behaviour. We should be returning a duplicate
copy of the string to begin with.
You are missing the point. We already *are* returning copies of
things only to prevent their modification. This is generally bogus
and wasteful of memory.
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