On 25/05/06, Aleksey Nogin <nogin@cs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>
> On 25.05.2006 04:18, Brian Hurt wrote:
>
> > Changing this behavior in Ocaml
> > would break huge amounts of code (including some of my code).
>
> It is obvious that at this point changing the default behavior would not
> be possible. However, adding the new "immutable strings" type would
> definitely be great and adding a compiler flag that would turn all
> string constants, "^", etc in a given module into immutable string
> operations would be nice as well and would not break any existing code.


But why don't you add such a type yourself?