Immutability

[mnapoli]

What do you think about making strings immutable? I.e. methods would always return the result without modifying the original object.

It would make much more sense IMO.

For example:

if ($str->toUpper() === 'HELLO') {
    // ...
}

Here $str would be modified, which is confusing.

[mnapoli]

(and the if wouldn't work because it returns void obviously)

[pierrejoye]

The main issue here is about performance. For many cases it could be too expensive to do it.

On the other hand, it would be nice to have these method be fluent. On Aug 18, 2014 3:04 PM, "Matthieu Napoli" notifications@github.com wrote:

(and the if wouldn't work because it returns void obviously)

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[mnapoli]

I see, it makes sense thanks for the answer.

[krakjoe]

We have it ...

[pierrejoye]

what do we have? Not sure to understand what you refer to here

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Joe Watkins notifications@github.com wrote:

We have it ...

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Pierre

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[krakjoe]

UString is immutable