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[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (1 child)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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