# Re: [stack] Joy inbuilt editor [was RE: Inlining in Joy]

## John Cowan — 2001-05-02 13:35:10

    Manfred von Thun wrote:

     > What I said in an earlier posting about an inbuilt editor is relevant.

    > One might (but it needs discussion whether it is worthwhile) do this:

    >   1. Introduce a new datatype "stringbuffer" (= a string + a movable

    >      integer pointer)

     This makes me nervous.  Hitherto, all Joy types have been immutable

    values.  Now we are introducing a mutable object.  I would prefer to

    keep mutability under the covers, and make things look immutable

    to the user.  (I should have mentioned immutability before as

    a Joy feature that makes distribution easy.)

     > (grown-ups like

    > myself use TECO if they can get it to work in a new environment

    > - never regretted it.)

     Hey, another TECO fan!  What TECO are you running on Linux these days?

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