[r6rs-discuss] Strings

From: Thomas Lord <lord>
Date: Sat Mar 24 23:23:07 2007

Jason Orendorff wrote:
>
> You could fix both by providing higher-level APIs:
> (string-first s) ===> the first grapheme cluster
> (string-rest s) ===> everything else
> and so on. The way this leads is to a realignment of
> all the string/character APIs toward grapheme clusters,
> away from scalar values. I offer this because if the
> editors want to do something unconventional, I think
> this is the way to go.


If you go back to some SRFIs that put forward early R6
proposals re unicode, in the discussions, you'll find that
bear (on this list) put forward something similar.

A grapheme-cluster orientation would at least be consistent
with a "this is for human text" conception of what CHAR
is for but it raises the interesting issue of a countably infinite
character set....

-t
Received on Sat Mar 24 2007 - 23:32:47 UTC