I favour (insist on) names linked closely to the type being worked on,
rather than creating new names. Basically, its not the job/role of [lang] to
create new concepts, just to simplify working with existing concepts IMO.
(see the lang proposal.html and status.html)

Stephen


> And what do people think here of introducing a different term (say Strand)
> for this concept as I discussed earlier (I paste that here, last time it
was
> buried under confusion due to a typo.)
>
> "
> Talking about name, I would add my opinion that while it might be
> nice to have a name for the replacer that is much like the replacee,
> (StringBuf) one might prefer a more descriptive name at the expense
> of this convenience: (***  MutableString).
>
> As a compromise between the two, the name Strand can be adopted (Str...
> thus near the original one + can be defined to represent a mutable
> string contrasted with "String" which, by virtue of the so-named
> class in the API, is immutable.)
> "
>
> Ash
>
>
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