No, not really.  Linked lists are very easy to deal with recursively and Strings automatically work with any already-defined list functions.

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
More to the point, there's nothing elegant about [Char] --- its sole
"advantage" is requiring no thought.