I am posting this as an individual member of the Scheme
community. I am not speaking for the R6RS editors.
As an implementor of Scheme, I have had to consider a
variety of possible representations for R6RS strings.
A succinct comparison of five plausible representations
can be found at
http://larceny.ccs.neu.edu/larceny-trac/wiki/StringRepresentations
Will
Received on Fri Mar 23 2007 - 23:33:58 UTC