On Tuesday 09 October 2007 11:20:04 Christophe TROESTLER wrote:
> 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!)

Out of curiosity, do your ropes handle UTF-8 and UTF-16?

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