Manifest Strings

"Brian Heilig" <Brian.Heilig-tdt4z+Mb/[email protected]> Sun, 05 Mar 2006 23:31:26 -0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.eiffel.gobo.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

When implementing a function like:

a_string: STRING is
    -- A string
  do
    ...
  end

why do you use:

  Result := STRING_.cloned_string ("A string!")

instead of just

  Result := "A string!"

???

Thanks,
Brian






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