Re: [Jscheme-user] string-set!

[Ken A. <kan...@bb...>]

At 03:44 PM 1/5/2004 -0500, Timothy John Hickey wrote:

>So, you are messing around with the undocumented implementation of String, so as to make strings mutable!
>This is clever, but violates all sorts of information hiding rules and fundamental precepts about object-oriented programming.

Yes, and add threads and hashtables and you have a booby trap construction set!

>Very cool!
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>Sounds good!
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>Lets use it!
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>>I've put this in jsint/primproc.scm because it is part of r4rs, but maybe it should
>>get located with slib/  i can't decide.
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>>k
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>But maybe put it in the slib code since we only really need strings to be mutable inside slib and there may be
>unforseen consequences (e.g. it might not work on all JDKs now and in the future...)
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>Eventually, we might need to make it uglier by having it check which Java version it is using before mucking around with
>the internal undocumented representation....
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>---Tim---
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