Chris Hanson wrote: > I think the best way to retain backward compatibility is to create a new > text abstraction in parallel with the historical strings. The > historical string abstraction should remain vectors of 8-bit (or 7-bit) > characters with side effects. The new text abstraction should be based > on Unicode. I think trying to bridge the difference between these two > with a hybrid approach has little to recommend it. > >
What do you mean by "in parallel?" In particular, do you mean that the new text type ought to be *required* to be disjoint from the text type? Do you mean that the CHAR type should be required to be a set of 128 or 256 values? -t _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
