Re: Different string format options, benefits?

I believe Icon stores strings as (length-count,pointer-to-string-pool).
Substrings can point to parts of the same string and concatenation
*can* append to the end of an existing string (if there is free space),
yielding same pointer, different length counts.


( There is no attempt to find a match for a sub-string - it is only done
  if the super-string is used in the expression that yields the sub-string:
  e.g. S1 := "e.g. examples included" ; S2 := S1[6:13] )


I'm sure that other languages where expressions|functions can yield strings
do something similar. ( examples anyone? ) But I don't think it buys you
much in a C type language where strings are not a built-in data-type.


- Steve Majewski


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  sdm7g@Virginia.EDU Box 449 Health Sciences Center
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