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

From: Abdulaziz Ghuloum <aghuloum>
Date: Mon Mar 19 21:27:31 2007

On Mar 19, 2007, at 9:04 PM, John Cowan wrote:

> William D Clinger scripsit:
>
>> Finally, I'd like to note that the current draft R6RS
>> does not actually preclude bucky bits. An implementation
>> could add bucky bits to characters while making those
>> bits invisible to all of the standard operations on
>> characters and strings.
>
> By the same token, one might add property lists to symbols,
> or for that matter add property lists to characters.

I believe that's correct (and can be done portably using hash
tables, though maybe not as efficiently). But I'm not seeing
how this is connected to the issue of ports, characters,
string, and unicode.

Aziz,,,
Received on Mon Mar 19 2007 - 21:27:00 UTC