Strings

I would venture a guess that aString[10] = "b" is illegal to make sure people aren't trying to do something like this aString[10] = "blah". I know it easy to say "Duh, one letter per index", but Max has no char type and therefore no way to garuntee that only one character is assigned. What I'd like to know is why can't I do this aStr[10] = 66 to match the read.

Also, I think a StringBuffer object is a good idea.