Why aren't literal strings in Eiffel read-only? Indeed, why isn't class STRING read-only? I think (as do others) that Java gets in right in this respect, with it's separation of String and StringBuffer.
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Why aren't literal strings in Eiffel read-only? Indeed, why isn't class STRING read-only? I think (as do others) that Java gets in right in this respect, with it's separation of String and StringBuffer.