Immutable strings

> Hello list!
>
> I would like to propose the compiler spit out immutable strings as
> string literals. I'd like to do this by making a subclass of classical
> strings which throws error messages when it is attempted to change the
> string.
>
> The beginning of this discussion happened in the bug tracker, please
> see http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1332.
>
> I completely agree with Toon: String literals should be immutable.
> This can be done with almost no speed impact and would only break code
> that quite honestly deserves to break.
>
> My 2 cents.
>
> Regards,
>
> Niko
>
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> Then there are so many string classes now! Still, a good idea, got well
> bitten by the problem twenty years ago (Smalltalk V/DOS)... took a good day
> to discover the problem!
>
> Regards, Gary
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Niko Schwarz" <[hidden email]>
> To: <[hidden email]>
> Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 4:48 PM
> Subject: [Pharo-project] Immutable strings
>
>
>> Hello list!
>>
>> I would like to propose the compiler spit out immutable strings as
>> string literals. I'd like to do this by making a subclass of classical
>> strings which throws error messages when it is attempted to change the
>> string.
>>
>> The beginning of this discussion happened in the bug tracker, please
>> see http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1332.
>>
>> I completely agree with Toon: String literals should be immutable.
>> This can be done with almost no speed impact and would only break code
>> that quite honestly deserves to break.
>>
>> My 2 cents.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Niko
>>
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