[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] String positions and string slices

From: Abdulaziz Ghuloum <aghuloum>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:20:57 -0400

On Apr 6, 2007, at 10:16 PM, John Cowan wrote:

> Summary: Proposes string positions and string slices to solve
> problems
> with O(n) Unicode string operations.

The stated problem is a result from some implementors' decisions
to implement strings inefficiently. Same problem would occur if
a naive implementation uses linked lists to implement vectors for
example. Yet the existence of a naive implementation of vectors
does not by itself warrant a change in the vectors API, right?

What's the real problem that this proposal attempts to solve?

Aziz,,,
Received on Mon Apr 09 2007 - 10:20:57 UTC