[DEPRECATED] Passing non-const STRING* is deprecated.

[bacek]

Hello.

All [*] functions currently accepting naked STRING* argument will accept const STRING*. Which includes public-facing API functions, VTABLEs, etc.

This is for making parrot const-correct in immutable-string world.

(Actual milestone should be 3.3)

-- Bacek.

[*] Parrot_str_pin and Parrot_str_unpin will stay in current form.

[jkeenan]

Milestone 3.6 deleted

[nwellnhof]

This doesn't work in many cases: Functions that want to return a string argument unchanged under some conditions, functions that pass the string arguments to VTABLE functions, etc.

One of the main problems is that PMC string attributes are non-const.