On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 02:22 +0000, dsimcha wrote: [ . . . ] > 1. How did it get to be this way? Why did it seem like a good idea at the > time to only support UTF-8 and only immutable strings?
But isn't the thinking these days that immutable strings are a good thing? Immutability is generally a good thing for all parallel, and indeed concurrent, computations. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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