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From:
Brent Dax
Date:
April 23, 2002 13:15
Subject:
RE: Mutable vs immutable strings
Message ID:
001001c1eb04$0502a320$9865fea9@deepblue
Dan Sugalski:
# Okay folks, time to hash this out once and for all.
# 
# Should strings in parrot be mutable or immutable? Right now we've a 
# mix, and that's untenable.

Three questions:

1. Which'll be faster?
2. Which'll be simpler?
3. Which is more important?

--Brent Dax <brentdax@cpan.org>
@roles=map {"Parrot $_"} qw(embedding regexen Configure)

#define private public
    --Spotted in a C++ program just before a #include
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