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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