On 12 June 2013 00:33, Andy Fingerhut <andy.finger...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't done anything but think about it during commute time yet, but I
> had been wondering in how many situations it might be useful to have a
> string type that was something like Relaxed Radix Binary trees, in that they
> can be concatenated and substring'd in O(log n) worst case time, and yet
> substrings would only hold onto references of the parts that they explicitly
> refer to, and perhaps a little bit more (but not the entire original
> string).

Just a minor note -- RRB trees never hold on to unneeded data (even
just a little bit).

Agreed that they should be useful in implementing a flexible string type.

Cheers,
Michał

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