From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@...>
Date: 2002-08-24T23:29:01+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 17875-17964

Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:30:44 +0900, Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> pisze:

>>    * str[n] returns strings whose length is 1.
> 
> Won't this cause additional allocations?

Couldn't 256 one-character strings be preallocated statically?

I don't know how mutability affects this though. Some languages make
strings immutable for a reason.

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