[Aldor-l] Questions

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Martin Rubey wrote:

| immutable literals.  Hm, aren't the other literals immutable, too?  It's only
| that string literals are the only ones where one usually "thinks" that one can
| modify them.  But why can't I set a certain bit in an AldorInteger?

If you could invidually set each limb in a multiprecision integer
representation (as you do for strings), you would run into the same
issue.  Java solves this issue for strings by having two classes: one
for immutable string, and one for mutable strings.

-- Gaby