On Friday 03 April 2009 20:46:26 Paolo Donadeo wrote:
> > You clearly want both, but each with its own type and strings as
> > immutable. Individual character mutability is rarely needed in text
> > processing
>
> I can agree with you on this argument, but a question still remains:
>
> why should you ever do things like:
> > # s.[0] <- 'a';;

Exactly. I find that to be useful and not a source of errors.

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