> Hello, > > Guile needs immutable strings. String literals should be immutable, so > that its characters can come directly from objcode. Also, the result of > (symbol->string 'foo) should be immutable; currently symbol->string > conses up a new shared substring every time.
How is this different from read-only strings? (BTW, you guys are doing some cool stuff right now. I wish I could dig in, but I'll be AWOL for a few more weeks trying to get updates of my other projects out the door.) -Mike
