From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@bpr.best.vwh.net>
To: Patrick M Doane <patrick@watson.org>
Cc: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>,
Mattias Waldau <mattias.waldau@abc.se>, <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Non-mutable strings
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:50:46 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.40.0201101847260.2173-100000@bpr.best.vwh.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020110133809.N63176-100000@fledge.watson.org>
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Patrick M Doane wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Xavier Leroy wrote:
>
> > If we were to start again from scratch, I'd consider immutable strings
> > seriously. Having mutable strings is handy when they are used as
> > character buffers, e.g. by low-level I/O functions. But I agree there
> > are advantages to distinguish (immutable) strings and (mutable)
> > character buffers.
>
> In some situations, I've been able to simply make an immutable replacement
> for the String module:
>
> module String = struct
> [...snip...]
> (* .. *)
> end
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?
-- Brian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-11 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-04 2:55 [Caml-list] Stop at exception Magesh Kannan
2002-01-04 13:46 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-01-05 11:19 ` [Caml-list] Non-mutable strings Mattias Waldau
2002-01-05 22:01 ` YAMAGATA yoriyuki
2002-01-10 17:56 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-01-10 18:25 ` [Caml-list] Float and OCaml C interface Christophe Raffalli
2002-01-12 21:12 ` David Mentre
2002-01-12 21:32 ` David Mentre
2002-01-23 15:07 ` [Caml-list] " Xavier Leroy
2002-01-23 16:02 ` David Monniaux
2002-01-10 18:41 ` [Caml-list] Non-mutable strings Patrick M Doane
2002-01-10 18:50 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
2002-01-13 20:05 ` Nicolas George
2002-01-16 19:22 ` Mattias Waldau
2002-01-17 9:56 ` YAMAGATA yoriyuki
2002-01-17 10:19 ` Jerome Vouillon
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