[r6rs-discuss] Strings as codepoint-vectors: bad

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Tue Mar 20 16:59:19 2007

Jason Orendorff scripsit:

> I won't continue to harp on this, but it bears repeating one more
> time: The current draft API doesn't support a simple, portable,
> efficient (string-find). I find this pretty dismal.

I think string-find is a bad example, because "simple" and "efficient"
are opposed. Efficient means Boyer-Moore or some variant of it, and
that's not simple.

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Received on Tue Mar 20 2007 - 16:59:12 UTC

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