Ropes in Go

A value-oriented, immutable, functional rope in Go.

Introduction

This module provides an implementation of the rope data structure in Go. Ropes allow for the efficient manipulation of long strings of text.

The rope structure implemented by this module is immutable, value-oriented, and immutable.

There is no way to modify an existing rope: all operations on a rope return a new rope.

One notable use case that this makes particularly nice is undo/redo: simply keep the old versions of the rope around.

Example

A simple example:

    rope := NewString("hello")
    rope = rope.AppendString(", world!")
    fmt.Printf("The value of the rope is: %v\n", rope.String())

Documentation

Documentation is included inline and is also available at https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/deadpixi/rope

License

rope - a persistent rope data structure Copyright (C) 2022 Rob King

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA