Re: Obsolete string-to-multibyte hard to replace

[Stefan Monnier]

> We could the collect the characters in a vector and then only convert
> to string at the end.  Haven't you said that strings should ideally be
> treated as immutable?

That's indeed my opinion, but I haven't pushed that even while I was
maintainer because there's a fair bit of code out there which does
modify strings in place.


        Stefan