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[Caml-list] Stop at exception

Magesh Kannan
- Xavier Leroy
  - Mattias Waldau
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    - Xavier Leroy
      - Patrick M Doane
        
        Brian Rogoff
        
        Nicolas George
      - Christophe Raffalli
        
        David Mentre
        
        David Mentre
        
        Xavier Leroy
        
        David Monniaux
      - Mattias Waldau
        
        YAMAGATA yoriyuki
        
        Jerome Vouillon

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Nicolas George <nicolas.george@e...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Non-mutable strings

Le duodi 22 nivôse, an CCX, Brian Rogoff a écrit :
> 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?

I second that. Something that would be really nice would be to have tail
recursive appends as efficient as with the Buffer module. And from the
syntactic viewpoint, a rule similar to the one that allow strings tokens
to be seen as format could be the solution to implement that.
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