petdance/scratch — Issue #412: new_s and new_s_i opcodes
Author: petdance
Created: 2011-11-14 05:55:56+00:00
State: open
Labels: core, deprecation, Pri-trivial, Sev-low

We have two opcodes for creating new, empty strings: new_s and new_s_i (both in src/ops/string.ops). There is a note in that file:
{{{
XXX: Do these ops make sense with immutable strings?
}}}

My answer is "no".

We should deprecate and remove these ops because they are worthless now.

Originally http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/2111