On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 19:19 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> > An implementation that implicitly, constantly, renormalizes all
> strings --
> > even immutable strings --
> 
> Immutable strings don't need renormalization.  You normalize them when
> you create them, period.

Yes, but when you are building a string-like mutable
type, appending and taking substrings, suddenly you 
are renormalizing on every operation.

Surely you want "string-set", no?  (or,
if you prefer, "string-replace").

-t




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