Re: `aset` on strings, changing the size in bytes

[Richard Stallman]

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  > >> Or we could define it to replace a substring:
  > >>
  > >>    (setq s (srep s from to newsubstring))
  > >
  > > Why not have aset do this under the hood?  Then we won't need to ask
  > > people to change code that worked for decades.

  > It's unclear what you mean by that, the semantics of aset is to modify
  > the original string, changing that would surely break code that worked
  > for decades.

I propose new functions sset and srep.

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