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Le 3 avr. 09 =E0 16:46, Jon Harrop a =E9crit :

> Just because my OCaml programs were mutating strings and translating =20=

> that into
> F# is non-trivial if the string is shared or big. In essence, I've =20
> always
> used OCaml's strings as a more efficient byte array. In fact, the best
> translation to F# is often to use byte arrays as a replacement for =20
> strings.

So immutable strings are not a "PITA" you are just using them for =20
something they should not be taken for (mutable byte arrays).

Daniel