Why are strings linked lists?

[Hal Daume III]

> > For me, there would rather be celebration :), especially if these could be
> > tuned to only use 8 bits.
> 
> What do you mean with this? Hopefully, not dropping Unicode support because 
> this would be a very bad idea, IMHO.

I mean to have the option of using Unicode or plain 8bit ascii as you see 
fit.

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