On 02/01/14 08:57, Thijs Schreijer wrote: > I'm writing some code that might potentially handle very large > strings. To write this properly/efficient I have a question on string > immutability. You might want to look at the 'rope' patten. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_%28computer_science%29 http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaRopes Scott