gah! I hate the new string syntax

[Pieter Nagel]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Alex Martelli wrote:

> "Pieter Nagel" <pieter at nagel.co.za> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.21.0103161339210.2809-100000 at bast.jhb.equinox.co.za...
>     [snip]
> > Of course you can. The technique is to modify the String class itself
> 
> It's not a class.  It's a non-class type, and does not support
> modification.

Yes. But the author I responded to said "assuming that String is a
class, not a type". My answer was made within the context of that
assumption.

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