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

From: Chris Hanson <cph>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:58:19 -0400

John Cowan wrote:
> Chris Hanson scripsit:
>
>> Well, except for things like XML libraries that won't work with strings,
>
> Don't existing R5RS XML libraries work with strings?

Well, the ones I've written do so, but only by forcing the strings to
contain UTF-8, which is incompatible with other uses of strings in
MIT/GNU Scheme, and technically not really strings in the R5RS sense.
I've accepted this as a necessary evil for the short term. But I'd much
rather have consistent support for Unicode throughout.
Received on Tue Apr 10 2007 - 00:58:19 UTC