Why are strings linked lists?

[ajb at spamcop.net]

G'day all.

Quoting Wolfgang Jeltsch <wolfgang at jeltsch.net>:

> I think, I have already said the following on this list. I would also like to
> have different character types for different subsets of Char (e.g., ASCII)
> and a class Character which the different character types are instances of.

As a matter of interest, what might some of the methods of this
class be?  ord and chr are two obvious choices.  What else?

Cheers,
Andrew Bromage