From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Obsolete string-to-multibyte hard to replace Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 23:28:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496115024 17165 195.159.176.226 (30 May 2017 03:30:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 03:30:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 30 05:30:16 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dFXrM-0004CZ-60 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 May 2017 05:30:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51305 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFXrR-0006CJ-Br for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 May 2017 23:30:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33786) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFXrL-0006CD-Od for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 May 2017 23:30:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFXrI-0007LI-Md for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 May 2017 23:30:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=37519 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFXrI-0007L6-FH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 May 2017 23:30:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dFXrA-0003sJ-L1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2017 05:30:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:esglMofLhjd7aygQKNGcrSDNksE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:215339 Archived-At: > 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