Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Re: [Caml-list] String to list to string

[Nicolas C. <war...@fr...>]

> It contains important functions such as String.map,
> String.replace_chars, String.slice, String.starts_with,
> String.ends_with, and many more.
>
> Rich.
>
> [1] Although embarrassingly, it appears, not these exact functions,
> which is why I've CC'd to ocaml-lib-devel list.  To ocaml-lib-devel:
> we should provide implementations of
> http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/FAQ_EXPERT-eng.html#strings

If you mean that we should add  string -> char list and char list -> string
functions to ExtString well I'm not sure it's good. Representing String as
char arrays/list is probably the worst (look at C). The best way is to treat
theses caracters uniformaly.
And BTW, it's possible to do the following :

List.of_enum (String.enum s)
String.of_enum (List.enum l)

Nicolas