Re: [Vala] Starting with Vala, problems with strings

[Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>]

On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 23:33 +0200, Frederik wrote:
> Diego Jacobi wrote:
> > Why isnt string = GString ?
> > Also i am courius why is it called StringBuilder? It sound like "not a GString".
>
> In order to resemble C# and Java which both have [s|S]tring and
> StringBuilder.
>
> string = char *    (immutable)
> StringBuilder = GString    (mutable)
...Although there are a few special functions on string that modify the
string in-place.

Also GString is not intended for text manipulation. It doesn't know more
about utf8 other than append_unichar.

> Regards,
>
> Frederik
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