From: Warren Young
Date: July 10 2007 9:56pm
Subject: Re: ColData::get_string() missing
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Sven Klose wrote:
> 
> I just wanted to update to 2.3.0 and noticed that ColData::get_string()
> isn't there anymore. We're sorta used to it. ;) Can we have it back?

Okay.  :)

It was taken out because it was a symptom of a design error, but until 
v3, we can't completely fix it and remove the final reasons for this 
method.  It already isn't helpful with MutableColData, but it is still 
needed for plain ColData.