🚀 go-pugleaf

My original posting was not terribly explicit.  My interpretation of the
wording in Table 7 is that an assignment x=y cannot share the string data
of y.  My interpretation of Table 3 for the copy constructor is the same:
string x(y) cannot sahre y's data.  I conclude, therefore, that a counted
pointer representation is allowed in theory but 'prevented in practice'.

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