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Re: Fast string handling and garbage collection

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Subject: Re: Fast string handling and garbage collection
From: "Glenn L. Austin" <glenn at austin-home dot com>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 15:24:17 -0700
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on 7/30/04 3:02 AM, Jacob Palme at jpalme at dsv dot su dot se wrote:

> Note that I am not writing this to criticise REALbasic,
> which is a very good language and compiler, I am writing
> in order to try to get it improved by addressing its two
> main shortcomings: Lack of garbage collector and inability
> to access and modify parts of a string.

"Lack of garbage collector" is viewed by many as a good thing.

It would be nice to be able to have mutable strings.

-- 
Glenn L. Austin <><
Computer Wizard and Race Car Driver
<glenn at austin-home dot com>
<http://www.austin-home.com/glenn/>

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