[r6rs-discuss] Strings

From: Jon Wilson <j85wilson>
Date: Mon Mar 26 16:00:44 2007

Hi Peter,

Peter Gavin wrote:
> I'm pretty sure this has been said before, but I personally think the
> string API should be representation agnostic.
I would tend to agree with you, but the problem with that approach is
that then the report cannot make any guarantees on the complexity of the
various operations it specifies. I'm sure you could make an argument
that it shouldn't make any such guarantees, but the fact remains that
you can't get something (representation agnostic report) for nothing
(not losing complexity guarantees) here.

Regards,
Jon
Received on Mon Mar 26 2007 - 16:00:32 UTC