Re: pseudo-specs for a String class: tokenization

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:39 +0200, Kinkie wrote:

> There's a quite important aspect I'd like to clear: currently most
> manipulation functions modify the KBuf itself, i.e.
>
> KBuf foo.assing("foo");
> foo.append(" bar");
> // foo now contains "foo bar".
>
> An alternative would be to always return fresh KBuf, or in other words:
>
> KBuf foo.assing("foo");
> foo=foo.append(" bar");
>
> The choice was made because it's more efficient, but it may be counterintuitive.

You made the right choice. The "modifying methods modify their object"
approach is more efficient and should be expected by most C++
developers.

Alex.
Received on Thu Sep 11 2008 - 16:04:38 MDT