> > Or when the abstraction leaks, as string-ref does for UTF-8 and UTF-16. Do > > you think that being able to write string-find portably & efficiently is > > important? > > I do think so, and I think R6RS needs some further string functions > in order to make it possible. Such functions can be provided by > the implementation in a way that breaks the scalar-value abstraction.
Not what I thought you'd say. But then again, I was asking William. :-) Do you have something in mind, John? _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
