On 11/8/13 11:33 AM, Oren Ben-Kiki wrote:
Now I'm confused; doesn't this mean str is fixed size, so the proposal
to just use "str" for the 3-word struct and have ~str and &str just be
the normal thing makes sense after all?

No, `str` is not fixed-size. An *owned pointer* to a string is fixed-size (as all pointers are), but the string *itself* is dynamically sized.

The size of pointers changes based on the kind of thing they point to.

Patrick

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