String implementations

[bearophile]

Defining how an ASCII string is best managed by a language is already complex (ropes or not? Mutable or not? With shared parts or not? Etc), but today ASCII isn't enough and when you add Unicode matters then string management becomes an hairy topic, this may be interesting for D developers:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2008/01/string_theory.html

Something curious: sometimes I need mutable strings, but I cope with the immutable ones when necessary. This author says that even stringAt isn't much useful! :-)

Bye,
bearophile