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From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: Anthony Tavener <anthony.tavener@gmail.com>
Cc: Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>, caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Immutable strings
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 00:44:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85AEC80768E84C1CBDF7903449F6FD3F@erratique.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN=ouMTLg9Hcq_Q+3EcU9fkgpeS9QLhwQ_1-84WqT4S6HnB28A@mail.gmail.com>



Le vendredi, 4 juillet 2014 à 21:31, Anthony Tavener a écrit :

> When I consider possible scenarios of utf8 encoded strings, and mutating that
> in-place... ugh. Even "back in the day", doing string operations in C on
> ASCII, I'd favor building a new string rather than flirting with saving ops by
> overwriting values in the current string. Oh! Upper/lower-case! Maybe that's
> the one good use-case. ;)

Not even… that is if you care about Unicode, e.g.:

# Uucp.Case.Map.to_upper 0xFB01;;
- : [ `Self | `Uchars of Uucp.uchar list ] = `Uchars [U+0046; U+0049]



Best,

Daniel



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-04 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-04 19:18 Gerd Stolpmann
2014-07-04 20:31 ` Anthony Tavener
2014-07-04 20:38   ` Malcolm Matalka
2014-07-04 23:44   ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]
2014-07-05 11:04   ` Gerd Stolpmann
2014-07-16 11:38     ` Damien Doligez
2014-07-04 21:01 ` Markus Mottl
2014-07-05 11:24   ` Gerd Stolpmann
2014-07-08 13:23     ` Jacques Garrigue
2014-07-08 13:37       ` Alain Frisch
2014-07-08 14:04         ` Jacques Garrigue
2014-07-28 11:14   ` Goswin von Brederlow
2014-07-28 15:51     ` Markus Mottl
2014-07-29  2:54       ` Yaron Minsky
2014-07-29  9:46         ` Goswin von Brederlow
2014-07-29 11:48         ` John F. Carr
2014-07-07 12:42 ` Alain Frisch
2014-07-08 12:24   ` Gerd Stolpmann
2014-07-09 13:54     ` Alain Frisch
2014-07-09 18:04       ` Gerd Stolpmann
2014-07-10  6:41         ` Nicolas Boulay
2014-07-14 17:40       ` Richard W.M. Jones
2014-07-08 18:15 ` mattiasw
2014-07-08 19:24   ` Daniel Bünzli
2014-07-08 19:27     ` Raoul Duke
2014-07-09 14:15   ` Daniel Bünzli
2014-07-14 17:45   ` Richard W.M. Jones
2014-07-21 15:06 ` Alain Frisch
     [not found]   ` <20140722.235104.405798419265248505.Christophe.Troestler@umons.ac.be>
2014-08-29 16:30     ` Damien Doligez

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