On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:37:49 +1000, skaller wrote:
> 
> If you use Buffer for concatenation you'll get faster times than 
> Ocaml (^) operator on strings, but what this misses is that other
> operations on strings (such as searching, substring etc etc)
> aren't available for Buffer.

The other operations are implemented for ropes (except regular
expressions which will happen when I have some time or some help!)

> Note that Python strings are immutable,

So are ropes.

Cheers,
ChriS