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From: Romain Beauxis <toots@rastageeks.org>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Strings
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X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 read-only:01 2009:98 caml-list:01 immutable:01 strings:01 strings:01 lazy:02 slower:02 api:02 manipulate:04 wether:04 exists:05 batteries:91 depending:10 

Le Saturday 04 April 2009 11:14:34 David Rajchenbach-Teller, vous avez =C3=
=A9crit=C2=A0:
> Note that Batteries provides
> * regular OCaml strings
> * strings with capabilities (i.e. strings which, depending on their
> type, can be read-only/write-only/read-write) -- sometimes faster than
> regular strings, never slower
> * immutable Unicode ropes.

Impressive !

I am taking this opportunity to ask wether there exists a String-compatible=
=20
API that would in fact manipulate lazy strings, i.e. strings which content =
is=20
read on-the-fly ?


Romain