[r6rs-discuss] port/char/string alternative

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Tue Mar 20 16:44:50 2007

Thomas Lord scripsit:

> And, in general, one thing that might be more widely
> agreed upon than either my formal comment or srfi-52
> is that there is no non-controversial way to directly
> extend CHAR/STRING from R5 into a full-blown
> basis for Unicode programming.

Anything can be made controversial if someone chooses to
controvert it.

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