Re: Namestring&pathstring returning shared structure

[Alan Snyder <snyder%hplsny@hplabs.HP.COM>]

CLU solved this problem by making STRING a different type than ARRAY of
CHARACTER, and by making STRINGs immutable.  We found having immutable STRINGs
to be extremely useful: one can pass a string to a procedure or return it from
a procedure without worrying that someone might destructively modify it!  This
idea was such a win that a later revision of CLU had both immutable and
mutable arrays and immutable and mutable records.

Something to think about for Common Lisp 2000...

  Alan
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