Right, but is that a genuine use case? If you're writing an editor you probably ...

lmm on May 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Should String Be An Abstract Class?

Right, but is that a genuine use case? If you're writing an editor you probably want it to have a stronger notion of the data representations people might want to edit. If you're just considering "user-supplied free text" that's probably constrained away from certain characters.