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From:
David Nicol
Date:
June 14, 2019 17:42
Subject:
Re: Making join() respect string-concat operator
Message ID:
CAFwScO_zmPKE8+Zah24r_HVNL2sSbebsM5FwRxWLj8JBhGSujg@mail.gmail.com
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 10:08 AM Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <
leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote:

> Compare this to the relatively operator-poor world of strings. I have
> written a module, String::Tagged, which acts and feels like a string
> but stores extra data in extents across it, typically used for
> formatting or similar.



For what it's worth, I like to refer to compound objects that contain many
smaller strings (formatted documents, deferred template-filling outputs,
etc) as "ropes." Because they're made of many strings.

-- 
"Plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth and tell the whole
world: No, you move."

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