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

[Richard J. <ri...@an...>]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:22:48AM +0100, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:
> 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.

It's not all about performance at all costs though.  For me, most of
the time I want to get something done, and speed simply doesn't matter
- all the programs I'm writing at the moment spend 99.99% of their
time waiting for a remote SOAP server to respond.

> And BTW, it's possible to do the following :
> 
> List.of_enum (String.enum s)
> String.of_enum (List.enum l)

Rich.

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