id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	lang	patch	platform
2111	new_s and new_s_i opcodes	whiteknight		"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: 

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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."	deprecation	new	trivial	3.9	core	master	low		string				all