Array append performance

[superdan]

Benji Smith Wrote:

> superdan wrote:
> >> In languages where Strings are objects (please!!! please, Walter!!!)
> > 
> > ok, i'll bite. what exactly are you so desperately asking for?
> 
> For strings to be implemented as objects, rather than as arrays of 
> characters.
> 
> --benji

ok i assume u mean class objects. because current arrays are objects. only not of class type.

and what advantages would that have. let me tell u of one disadvantage fer starters. with builtin arrays of characters you can efficiently implement classes. with classes you can't efficiently implement arrays of characters.