Thomas Lord scripsit:
> If you want to find a "design motif" that explains R6's char
> and string types, I think you need look no further than to see
> that they are more or less a direct transliteration of the way
> scalar values and locale-independent string processing are defined
> in the Unicode standard.
Quite so, and IMHO a Good Thing Too.
> (This is, of course, a regression from lisp tradition and Scheme
> tradition in which the character type was extensible and far more
> abstract.)
I note that CL made a similar regression when it eliminated the
bits and font attributes.
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