quote:Original post by SiCrane
You know, from the original post I can''t tell if your professors are recommending C style null terminated strings or instances of the MFC CString class. Depending on the compiler you''re using in your class I can see justifications for the latter. The std::string implementations in MSVC 5 and 6 were just wretched. In particular, the nature of their reference counting mechanism made proper multi-threaded programming with them hideously difficult.