[m-dev.] for review: teeny changes to string.m

[Fergus Henderson]

On 27-Oct-2000, Michael Day <mcda at students.cs.mu.oz.au> wrote:
> 
> Oh, another thing I noticed in string.m is that there is no method to
> update the value of a particular character in a string:
> 
> :- pred set(char, int, string, string).
> :- mode set(in, in, in, out) is semidet.
> 
> or some such predicate and a corresponding unsafe variant. Is this an
> intentional lack or is it just that no one has needed it?

I think it's the latter.

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