🚀 go-pugleaf

My original posting was somewhat ill-posed.  What I really meant to say
was that it seems to me that a counted pointer representation is to ruled
out in practice because the DWP wording, in my opinion, prevents the
representation to be shared in the only case that makes sense to share.

I interpret the phrase

	 points at the first element  of  an
	 allocated  copy  of  the  the array
	 whose first element is  pointed  at
	 by str.data()
                ^^^^<--------- my 'wording' now

as meaning that if we had a string x without sharers then string y(x)
would necessarily create another string without sharers.

-- 
John Hickin      Nortel Technology, Montreal, Quebec
(514) 765-7924   hickin@bnr.ca


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