Re: [Scribia-dev] crash & new stuff

[Rob T. <ro...@ts...>]

on 3/24/01 11:47 AM, Lark at lar...@ya... wrote:

> Looks good! Actually, we probably could return a const string&,
> mRename is supposed to be constant anyway (but can't really be
> declared that way.)

There are lifetime issues with that interface. The caller can't tell how
long that string& will remain good.

There's no reason not to return a copy of the string. The implementation of
class string is efficient for copies; it doesn't actually copy the data of
the string, just a reference to it.

Rob