Modifying string length?_(re)

Wed, 30 Apr 1997 00:41:36 +0200 (MET DST)

According to Frank Heckenbach:
> > 
> > No.  They are exceptions in yet another way because they have the
> > implicit read-only "length" field.
>  
> That's what I meant. If length was made accessible in a normal way, it
> would not be an exception.

Being an array schema, the presence of the implicit "length" field would
make the string an exception.  Being a record schema, the implicit
dereference of the "string" field when indexing the string makes it
an exception.  No way out.  (However see my other mail.)

Greetings,

    Peter

  Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
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