Hi Jim,
Thanks for posting this. Honestly the methods list I initially proposed
years ago and the one Luke eventually put in which had some of what I had
said and a bunch of new stuff, was pretty heavily focused on numeric values
(exclusively so, in my case, I think).
I agree that there is a lot
A useful extension of ALTREP is having two new string methods which
return the number of characters of a given string element and to
return a substring of an element.
Having these methods would allow retrieving these values without
needing to create a CHARSXP for the full element data, which could
