Why are strings immutable?

[Sam Holden]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 03:26:00 GMT,
	Brent W. Hughes <brent.hughes at comcast.net> wrote:
> I kind of hate to have to convert a string into a list, manipulate it, and
> then convert it back into a string.  Why not make strings mutable?

Not being able to use strings as dictionary keys would kind of suck :)

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Sam Holden