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From: Nicolas George <nicolas.george@ens.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Non-mutable strings
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:05:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020113210533.A4461@clipper.ens.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.40.0201101847260.2173-100000@bpr.best.vwh.net>; from bpr@bpr.best.vwh.net on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 09:50:43AM +0000

Le duodi 22 nivôse, an CCX, Brian Rogoff a écrit :
> Sure, that works, but I think if the Caml community really wants immutable
> strings (and it seems that quite a few people do) it might make sense to
> try some alternative implementations, like ropes. It was mentioned on
> this list that some older version of Caml used ropes; maybe they could be
> resurrected?

I second that. Something that would be really nice would be to have tail
recursive appends as efficient as with the Buffer module. And from the
syntactic viewpoint, a rule similar to the one that allow strings tokens
to be seen as format could be the solution to implement that.
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-13 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-04  2:55 [Caml-list] Stop at exception Magesh Kannan
2002-01-04 13:46 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-01-05 11:19   ` [Caml-list] Non-mutable strings Mattias Waldau
2002-01-05 22:01     ` YAMAGATA yoriyuki
2002-01-10 17:56     ` Xavier Leroy
2002-01-10 18:25       ` [Caml-list] Float and OCaml C interface Christophe Raffalli
2002-01-12 21:12         ` David Mentre
2002-01-12 21:32           ` David Mentre
2002-01-23 15:07         ` [Caml-list] " Xavier Leroy
2002-01-23 16:02           ` David Monniaux
2002-01-10 18:41       ` [Caml-list] Non-mutable strings Patrick M Doane
2002-01-10 18:50         ` Brian Rogoff
2002-01-13 20:05           ` Nicolas George [this message]
2002-01-16 19:22       ` Mattias Waldau
2002-01-17  9:56         ` YAMAGATA yoriyuki
2002-01-17 10:19         ` Jerome Vouillon

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