[sldev] Uses of LLString and std::string ?

[Tateru Nino]

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> On 2008-01-23, at 12:08, Richard Nelson wrote:
>> Before any C++ purists complain, let me note that std::string does 
>> not have a virtual destructor and hence we can never add any member 
>> variables or implement a non-trivial destructor in LLString.  It 
>> serves merely as a convenient wrapper for std::string that tests for 
>> the null char* case, as Steve mentioned, and provides some handy 
>> functions (e.g. case-insensitive string comparison) that would 
>> otherwise require boilerplate code.
>
> [speechless]
>
> What kind of object oriented language doesn't make this kind of thing 
> virtually transparent?
Virtual destructors were a late entry to the language standard, well 
after most of the STL was frozen.

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