On 11/07/16 6:44 AM, KC wrote:
Is the #functional programming paradigm antithetical to efficient strings? #Haskell
What on earth does "efficient strings" mean? To the extent that I can extract any meaning from that, the answer is "no, obviously not". The functional programming paradigm includes languages like ML, which has always had packed-array-of-byte strings and corresponding contiguous-slice-of-shared-packed-array-of-byte substrings, and languages where the default implementation is a singly-linked list with one cell per code. What is "efficient" is a matter of what you are *doing* with the strings. An important consideration these days is that the old idea of a mutable array with one element per character (which was never the only way to implement strings) is a very poor fit for Unicode.