[m-dev.] New datatype: rope

[Peter Schachte]

On 11/11/10 12:27, Paul Bone wrote:

> Does anyone see any problem with this idea or a simpler implementation?

No problem with it, but how about generalising it by allowing segments of the
rope to be made of any instance of a sequence type class?  Then you could make
a rope from separate bits of strings, arrays, lists, substrings, basically
anything you have lying around that somehow implements a sequential collection
of homogeneous things?  I'm not sure what the best set of methods for the type
class are, but something equivalent to CAR, CDR, CONS and NIL.


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