Re: newbie question - strings and arrays

["Thomas Harning Jr." <harningt@...>]

Jamie Webb wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 12:37:42PM -0300, Walter Cruz wrote:
> 
>>And more, just for curiosity: there are another languages where is not
>>possible use strings as arrays ?
> 
> 
> Lua's strings are similar to Java's, except that Java uses unicode
> characters rather than bytes, and doesn't do interning until told to.
> And it has the StringBuffer class for those occasions when you want a
> string to be mutable.
> 
> -- Jamie Webb
> 
Well, I suppose this calls for a StringBuffer class to be written
for Lua ;)  [though for optimality it'll probably have to be in C]
I think the StringBuffer idea's a great idea, or perhaps for clarity
just calling it a Buffer might be better.

-- 
Thomas Harning Jr.

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