From: Olaf van der Spek (olafvdspek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-27 17:55:19


On 3/27/06, Pavol Droba <droba_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > Or should all functions (in all applications and libraries) return
> > const string instead of just string?
>
> Well no, you should make a copy and store it into a variable. There is copying there anyway
> and if you don't mind returning std::string, you probably don't have problems with performance issues.

But that doesn't look nice and introduces additional variables.