[r6rs-discuss] Re: [Formal] formal comment (ports, characters, strings, Unicode)

From: MichaelL_at_frogware.com <MichaelL>
Date: Mon Mar 19 18:05:14 2007

> Code units (whether UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, or whatever) are
> bit patterns that are used to encode Unicode scalar values.
> As programmers and as language designers, one of our guiding
> principles is that bit patterns don't matter except where
> they are forced upon us by the external world, typically via
> i/o.

Or when the abstraction leaks, as string-ref does for UTF-8 and UTF-16. Do
you think that being able to write string-find portably & efficiently is
important?
Received on Mon Mar 19 2007 - 18:04:39 UTC