On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 22:51, Goktug Gokdogan <gokdo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nobody is interested or everybody is busy?
I think there's a place for a StringBuilder-like abstraction that uses a gap buffer, but it shouldn't replace StringBuilder. Like ArrayList, users of StringBuilder expect that it is very efficient for appends, but no other operations. I would think that most of the time a gap buffer would not be used just to create a string, but instead would be a longer-lived software entity. Gap buffers are used in emacs to implement long-lived text buffers, and there the equivalent of toString is a rare operation. Martin
