Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> You now assume the characters initially came from a list. Mine come
> from a character stream and the original poster wrote "assemble a
> string from various chars...or from maybe a list of chars".
>
> In the case you assume I'd use coerce.
Right -- I assumed they came from a list. At the point I joined
the thread KMP had said "COERCE can make a string from a list"
and you'd said "I thought going via vectors was more efficient";
it was clear that KMP thought you were taking your characters
from a list, and I sort of unconsciously assumed you were since
you didn't object. :-)
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Gareth McCaughan Dept. of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics,
·····@dpmms.cam.ac.uk Cambridge University, England.