2007/6/16, Alain Frisch <Alain.Frisch@inria.fr>:
> Jon Harrop wrote:
> > Any chance of changing the semantics of string literals so they aren't static?
> [...]
> If it were done automatically, there would be a penalty for
> the common case of immutable strings; to avoid it, you'd need to lift
> constant literals out of abstractions, which is not very nice.

By the way, why Ocaml didn't take the Java path, i.e. making truly
immutable strings, And provide mutable string buffers as well? Any
chance of seing someone exploring that path? (Some usefull features
would then be fast consing and catenation, and some easier string
sharing).

Loup