ruby-core

Hi,

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> In message "Re: [Patch] String and (repost) MemLeak"
>     on 03/03/03, Michal Rokos <michal@rokos.homeip.net> writes:
> 
> |	I think it's better to make str_new smart rather than say "I'm
> |happy with garbage". Ruby's C level is just great and makes programmers
> |live happier so I think we should continue this direction and fix the
> |len as well. (Of course, you're boss - so you decide.)
> 
> I consider (or designed) str_new(0, len) as allocation of string
> buffer, so that I think garbage is OK, just like malloc().

You're probably right - if programmer wants garbage he gets it... But I
still think that setting proper len cost nothing and could make some
tired programmers happier.

> |	I'll commit whatever you want.
> 
> I already merged the memleak fix.  Thank you.

Oh - great. Thank you.

	Michal