Re: Proposal: improvement of string.gsub()

[Asko Kauppi <asko.kauppi@...>]

When would Lua then use these ropes/stringlets?  Always after string 
concatenation?

And if such a rope was the target of 'tostring' operation (implicitly 
or explicitly) it would automatically convert to the corresponding 
string (but only then, saving all the interim concats).

-ak

20.4.2005 kello 15:38, Javier Guerra kirjoitti:

 On Wednesday 20 April 2005 7:16 am, Gavin Wraith wrote:
> > If the final string is actually needed, that is clearly the way to go.
> > In practice, it very rarely is needed. Usually the rope/stringle 
> > (sorry
> > "stringle" was an extemporization) gets written out to a file. The 
> > point
> > is that ropes are very easy to program in Lua. I doubt whether 
> > managing
> > them at the C level gains one very much.
>
> the biggest gain would be because of transparency.  having a good 
> enough
> implementation inside the language would eliminate in a single stroke 
> most of
> the bad usages of strings.