[PD-dev] strings

[Bryan Jurish]

On 2006-12-17 03:09:19, Martin Peach <martin.peach at sympatico.ca> appears 
to have written:
> A string could be considered unused when its length is set to 0. Memory 
> would need to be dynamically allocated in small blocks. The API should 
> return "no method for string" if the external doesn't implement strings.

... which wouldn't get us true strings in the mathematical sense of a 
free monoid <Alphabet,concat()>, since the empty string is the identity 
element for concat()...

marmosets,
	Bryan

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