immutable strings - approved

[Andy Lester]

On Apr 14, 2010, at 7:36 PM, Allison Randal wrote:

> I've become more enamored with the immutable strings idea as I read through the branch diff (immutable_strings_part1). It's quite impressive how much redundant code gets removed when we can rely on a string to never change.

As the official Conster of Parrot, I heartily endorse this change.  I suspect that the compiler and/or splint will be able to do much magic with this much constness running around.

xoxo,
Andy

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