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From: meta@pobox.com (mathew)
Subject: Re: C++ text based game
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Magnus Olsson <mol@df.lth.se> wrote:
> You don't have to look beyond the language standard itself: the class
> string is a part of the C++ standard since at least a year.  And, yes,
> it's a "real" string class with variable length, concatenation,
> substring extraction, deletion, copy-on-write etc.

In other words, it gives C++ the kind of string-handling enjoyed by
BASIC.  Which isn't exactly something to crow about.


mathew
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