David Nicol wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:10 AM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> 1. We don't have a binary data type. (We dont distinguish character >> data from octet data and its easy to inadvertently cause one to be >> treated as the other with surprising results.) >> > > I have been for some time in favor of introducing a > string-of-characters data type which would be a tree of some kind > rather than a contiguous block. So if new data is to be added to the > what you want is Ropes