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

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Mon Mar 19 21:07:17 2007

MichaelL_at_frogware.com scripsit:

> 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?

I do think so, and I think R6RS needs some further string functions
in order to make it possible. Such functions can be provided by
the implementation in a way that breaks the scalar-value abstraction.

-- 
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game, so we stayed home and we listened to it on-a the radio.  --Chicolini

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