[r6rs-discuss] Unicode issues

From: Thomas Lord <lord>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:16:56 -0700

Alan Watson wrote:
> Scheme has a functional or immutable string type: symbols. Perhaps
> what you need to do is add procedures for extracting, concatenating,
> and perhaps indexing symbols.


That's a tempting point of view but I'm not yet convinced, especially in
light of XML namespaces, that symbols are forever something as simple as
immutable strings. I'm standing pat with disjointness there.

-t
Received on Wed Aug 29 2007 - 19:16:56 UTC