From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA31538; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:05:35 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA31671 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:05:34 +0100 (MET) Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g0DK5XP06062 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:05:33 +0100 (MET) Received: from clipper.ens.fr (clipper-gw.ens.fr [129.199.1.22]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id g0DK5XX75796 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:05:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from (george@localhost) by clipper.ens.fr (8.9.2/jb-1.1) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:05:33 +0100 From: Nicolas George To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Non-mutable strings Message-ID: <20020113210533.A4461@clipper.ens.fr> References: <20020110133809.N63176-100000@fledge.watson.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from bpr@bpr.best.vwh.net on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 09:50:43AM +0000 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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. ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr