Thomas Lord scripsit: > If you want to find a "design motif" that explains R6's char > and string types, I think you need look no further than to see > that they are more or less a direct transliteration of the way > scalar values and locale-independent string processing are defined > in the Unicode standard.
Quite so, and IMHO a Good Thing Too. > (This is, of course, a regression from lisp tradition and Scheme > tradition in which the character type was extensible and far more > abstract.) I note that CL made a similar regression when it eliminated the bits and font attributes. -- Well, I have news for our current leaders John Cowan and the leaders of tomorrow: the Bill of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rights is not a frivolous luxury, in force http://www.ccil.org/~cowan only during times of peace and prosperity. We don't just push it to the side when the going gets tough. --Molly Ivins _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
