From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Obsolete string-to-multibyte hard to replace
Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 23:28:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8tlfhvmi.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAM-tV--CskdGmy8Or=50HZ_LyV0D9S73gVNHbi-=b8oognx3Zw@mail.gmail.com
> We could the collect the characters in a vector and then only convert
> to string at the end. Haven't you said that strings should ideally be
> treated as immutable?
That's indeed my opinion, but I haven't pushed that even while I was
maintainer because there's a fair bit of code out there which does
modify strings in place.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-30 3:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-29 13:01 Obsolete string-to-multibyte hard to replace Stefan Monnier
2017-05-29 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-30 4:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-05-30 0:21 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-05-30 3:28 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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