Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Bridging NSMutableString, a compromise

[Just v. R. <ju...@le...>]

Jack Jansen wrote:

> Still, I think the whole idea of this double-headed-monster-string is
> far to complex for the problem we're trying to solve.

Yet the module that Ronald just posted is remarkably small. It's very
simple, it must be good! ;-)

Bill's stuff also looks pretty good! We actually manages to reuse the
Python string storage!

> If we would just return the actual object, i.e. an NSString or
> NSMutableString, all our problems would disappear, except for one: it
> is cumbersome (not to mention butt-ugly) to have to do
> obj.NSStringAsCString(), or even str(obj), on 99% of all the
> NSStrings you get back from objc.

Which is IMO exactly what we must avoid.

Just