I guess I miss-spoke there - sorry. I don't have a particularly problem in general with transparent structures.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Robby Findler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Doug Williams<br>
<<a href="mailto:m.douglas.williams@gmail.com">m.douglas.williams@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> The main problem I see with transparent structures is that they are also<br>
> inherently mutable. Some of the operation provided may well make use of that<br>
> - for example removing whitespace. And, internally, it may be that the<br>
> structures are created and then filled - as opposed to building the<br>
> substructures and then creating the structure. I really haven't looked.<br>
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</div>Transparent structures are not automatically mutable, if I understand correctly.<br>
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Robby<br>
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