String hierarchy (was: UTC-8 (was ...))

Richard A. O'Keefe ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz
Sun Mar 19 23:48:35 UTC 2000


Maurice Rabb wrote:
	However, the total 
	behavior is different unlike other all other collection types (except 
	Interval) ArrayedCollections are not resizeable.

As an old Burroughs Algol/Algol 68/Lisp programmer and admirer of Dijkstra's
notation, I can't help thinking that's a bug in the design of
ArrayedCollection which is overdue for fixing.

	If you can modify the elements of a string without copying it first,
	should it be reasonable to be able to add characters to it, or
	remove characters from it as well?  Thus the point of debate.
	
Yes of course, just like it SHOULD be possible to add elements at the ends
of an array or remove elements from the ends of an array.





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