According to Frank Heckenbach:

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No. They are exceptions in yet another way because they have the implicit read-only "length" field.

That's what I meant. If length was made accessible in a normal way, it would not be an exception.

Being an array schema, the presence of the implicit "length" field would make the string an exception. Being a record schema, the implicit dereference of the "string" field when indexing the string makes it an exception. No way out. (However see my other mail.)

Greetings,

Peter

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