About Strings

[Caolán McNamara]

On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 15:20 +0100, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 of March 2012, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 13:39 +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> > > (And even if immutable classes are
> > > generally also a good idea in C++, esp. in combination with
> > > multi-threading, the mutable rtl::OUString::operator= spoils this,
> > > anyway.)
> >
> > And the += operator irritates me.
> 
>  Before I start experimenting with more stuff in OUString that might look a 
> bit like operator+= , what exactly is so irritating about operator= or 
> operator+= in OUString and why?

It's just that if OUString was supposed to be immutable, then a 
foo += bar; "feels wrong" to me in some vague way that, I guess
bizarrely, foo = foo + bar doesn't. *shrug*

C.