Fixing std.string

[Russel Winder]

On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 02:22 +0000, dsimcha wrote:
[ . . . ]
> 1.  How did it get to be this way?  Why did it seem like a good idea at the
> time to only support UTF-8 and only immutable strings?

But isn't the thinking these days that immutable strings are a good
thing?

Immutability is generally a good thing for all parallel, and indeed
concurrent, computations.

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