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From: Martin Jambon <martin_jambon@e...>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Re: immutable strings (Re: Array 4 MB size limit) 
Hi John,

On Sun, 28 May 2006, Harrison, John R wrote:

> With immutable strings, you'd never need to do conversions at the module
> interfaces. As with any other functional data structure, you only copy
> when you want to change part of it.

OK, but let's be pragmatic: what kind of interface and implementation do 
you have in mind?

(and then: isn't it possible to implement in OCaml?)


If anyone is interested:

Before posting I tried a polymorphic (wrt mutability) string type.
It was fun enough, but it doesn't scale very well. I put it there:

   http://martin.jambon.free.fr/ocaml.html#gstring



Martin

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