[m-rev.] diff: implement concat_string_list for .NET

[Michael Day]

> > Urk - while in principle I would support this, it would require changing a 
> > lot of interface code and should not be undertaken lightly :)
> 
> Hmm, shame.  Oh well.

Perhaps a gentle starting point could be to make a "cstring" module and
foreign_type that could be used for interfacing with C libraries, but
again it could lead to a fair deal of hassle if code has to convert back
and forth between string and cstring, and a fair bit of duplication if it
doesn't.

Are there any studies comparing the efficiency of the two string
approaches? Presumably this would have been a hot issue back in the Pascal 
vs C days?

Michael

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