[M3devel] text inefficiency? good mutable string type? arrays?

Mika Nystrom mika at async.caltech.edu
Tue Feb 26 20:22:57 CET 2008


Olaf Wagner writes:
>Quoting Jay <jayk123 at hotmail.com>:
>
>> I know this area has been brewing under the surface a while.
>> I'll bring it up. :)
>>
>> I assume texts are read only?
>
>Yes.
>
>> I know lots of systems have read only strings.
>> There are pluses and minus to them. They can be single-instanced.
>> Some systems with read only strings have another type, such as   
>> "StringBuilder" or "StringBuffer".
>> So -- I don't have a specific question, but maybe a mutable string   
>> "class" aka "type" is needed?Not necessarily in the language but in   
>> m3core or libm3?
>> Maybe it's already there?

CharSeq.T?



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