Re: [julia-users] Re: Performance variability - can we expect Julia to be the fastest (best) language?

[Scott Jones]

I should be clear, I didn't mean that all strings should be immutable, but 
rather that I also want to have mutable strings available... There is a package 
for that, but 1) I think it's incomplete (I may need to contribute to it), and 
2) I think that they do belong in the base language...
CLU had both, which was very nice...
For many things, IOBuffer is exactly the right way of doing things (the name is 
misleading though... Maybe it should have been StringBuffer...), but there are 
use cases where you are constantly modifying the string while performing other 
string operations on it...