From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-08-26T22:36:20+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 17875-17964

On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 11:29:01PM +0900, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> 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.

That actually sounds reasonable.  The returned strings could be frozen,
to mark them immutable.

Paul