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

From: MichaelL_at_frogware.com <MichaelL>
Date: Mon Mar 19 22:37:06 2007

> > 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.

Not what I thought you'd say. But then again, I was asking William. :-) Do
you have something in mind, John?
Received on Mon Mar 19 2007 - 22:36:30 UTC