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I'm probably beating a dead horse here, but I had a couple of
questions about the strings class (at least, the one in the April WP).
Specifically, there are two design decisions that I don't understand.

a) Why does basic_string::copy() not also copy an ending '\0'? If
there's some sort of good reason, why wasn't a function added that did
this (perhaps basic_string::copy_null() or something)? I must say, it
is very inconvenient to copy a string to a C-style array of chars with
the current string class.

b) I don't see any reason why basic_string::copy() is not a const
function. Any particular reason for that one?



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