From: Per Bothner <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] Proposed NON-features for small Scheme, part 8: string-set! must die Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:59:00 -0700
> On 09/19/2009 07:32 PM, Shiro Kawai wrote: > > I think nobody opposes generally mutable "string-like" data > > structure, which allows length-changing mutation as well. > > Immutable-string camp just thinks such data structure can be > > built on top of immutable primitive strings. > > You could do that, but better would be to use a mutable > char vector or a bytebuffer as a gap-buffer. > > I.e. you build such structure on top of a *mutable* > primitive (i.e. implementation-specific) buffer. Ok, so I retract that. The point is that we should separate (1) whether the standard have constant-length string mutation or not, and (2) how standard have general (length-changing) mutation. --shiro _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
