Re: More functions accepting strings and symbols

[thi]

   From: Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden>
   Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:29:29 +0200 (MEST)

   Up to now this has not been a big deal, since strings and symbols were
   represented similarly.  However, as I am currently trying to make accesses
   to different types more explicit in the code (by for example splitting
   SCM_LENGTH into SCM_STRING_LENGTH, SCM_SYMBOL_LENGTH and so on), it
   becomes obvious that there are some functions which are not very explicit
   about their inputs.  I suggest to restrict the accepted input parameter
   types to strings in most of the cases.

nooooooo!!!!  [sounds of hair ripping out]

i can't describe how unhappy i would be if string/symbol
interoperability were dropped.  :-(

thi