Sadly some form of OBString is a necessity, any string object needs a reference count and some function pointers packaged in the struct to work. Converting OBSt

Sadly some form of OBString is a necessity, any string object needs a reference count and some function pointers packaged in the struct to work. Converting OBString to have the same interface as standard string handling functions is a good idea though, and using the standard functions as a backend would also be done in that case.