Long strings as function parameters

[Nick Coghlan]

Jeremy Bowers wrote:
> I had thought there was an obvious class in the standard library to assist
> with this, but I must have been wrong.

buffer is the closest current contender, but I believe it's on the outer due to 
some problems with its implementation.

I think the intention is to eventually have a 'bytes' type, but I don't recall 
if that was going to be mutable or immutable.

Cheers,
Nick.

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