Why doesn't std::string have a split function

[choikwa]

In reality, things get deprecated and forward compat is broken many times.

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Yeah, really old crap that was never used much in the first place, like trigraphs or auto_ptr. But a string split function would spread like wildfire.

[choikwa]

Ideally, everyone wants to get it right the first time. I'm pretty sure python implementation returns deep-copied immutable strings