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From: =?utf-8?Q?Daniel_B=C3=BCnzli?= <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Immutable strings



Le vendredi, 4 juillet 2014 =C3=A0 21:31, Anthony Tavener a =C3=A9crit :

> 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 o=
ps by
> overwriting values in the current string. Oh! Upper/lower-case! Maybe tha=
t's
> the one good use-case. ;)

Not even=E2=80=A6 that is if you care about Unicode, e.g.:

# Uucp.Case.Map.to_upper 0xFB01;;
- : [ `Self | `Uchars of Uucp.uchar list ] =3D `Uchars [U+0046; U+0049]



Best,

Daniel