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



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