Re: Where is stringbuilder?

"Rob Kennedy" <me3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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J French wrote:

What an odd idea
A string is just a block of memory

In Win32 Delphi, yes. In Java and .Net, no. In those, a string is an
object. If it had methods that could change its contents, then anything
that stored a reference to a string would be in danger of having that
string change later.

There is that. Plus, a string does not contain amorphous bytes but
*characters*. These may be two bytes in length. Or one-or-more bytes.
They may be encoded in US-ASCII, with high bits implicitly cleared
because they're not used anyway. Or in ISO-8859-1. Or ISO-8859-15,
or Windows-1252. Or KOI-8. UTF-8. UTF-7. EBCDIC.

If you want a block of memory, it seems to me that a dynamic array of
byte would be a choice less laden with semantic baggage.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink


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