I'm a little rusty but I did read the 0.4 docs before and gave the language a try, I'll dive into 0.5 again this weekend, I am a little confused by something however. What's going on with strings? When I last looked, a lot of the string operations worked with a specific pointer sigil[1]. If I'm using managed boxes, and the methods take and return unique boxes, is it because I'm using the wrong sigil for the job or should I expect to be able to use managed strings?

Is this just me misunderstanding the memory model or is this something that just hasn't been straightened our yet? I'm pretty confused about this in particular, as I thought I understood the point of the different sigils pretty well, but the way the library is written makes me wonder. This applies to things other than strings I guess, but strings seem like a good example.

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/blob/master/src/libcore/str....