On 06/21/2011 01:29 AM, Jonathan Ryan wrote:
> Also remember that "[t]he data type for strings is string. Vala strings are 
> UTF-8 encoded and immutable." [http://live.gnome.org/Vala/Tutorial#Strings]
> If they are to be immutable, assigning strings must yield shallow copies.

Though they are not *completely* immutable, e.g. calling str._strip() will
modify a string in place (or so I think).

Best regards
        Christian

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