operator overloading

[NMTop40]

What is operator+ supposed to do? Why work with a temporary char* when you can work with a temporary FunnyString that is returned? Have you considered implementing operator+=, then possibly implementing operator+ by using operator+=?

EDIT:

Sounds possible, but I cannot find where dakotabk made the mistake of setting the data member variable to anything other than the result of new[] or a null pointer constant.

He was going to change it to point to an empty string.

As for operator+, it is to allow efficient implementation of this that the standard does not require that it internally holds a contiguous buffer. Effectively you can have a variation of a string that has two or more pointers concatenated together (A rope, I think they call it).

It is relatively easy to implement a string that works. It is extremely difficult to implement one that works well in all (or at least the most common) situations.