On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 22:28, Jon Harrop wrote:
> On Friday 09 April 2004 12:01 pm, Oliver Bandel wrote:
> > it's nice to have a String.iter, but more functional would
> > be to have a String.map function.
> 
> Would that be:
> 
> val map : (char -> char) -> string -> string
> 
> or
> 
> val map : (char -> 'a) -> string -> 'a list
> 
> ?
> 
> But yes, ironically, now that I return to coding I need exactly this function 
> (the latter, actually). :)

And I need:

val map: (char -> string) -> string -> string

which is by far the most common need. An example is:

map to_UTF8 latin1_string

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