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Re: strings rationale
From: |
Dirk Herrmann |
Subject: |
Re: strings rationale |
Date: |
Mon, 6 Aug 2001 19:38:53 +0200 (MEST) |
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Tom Lord wrote:
> I don't understand your explanation.
>
> Can symbols be used as strings? Can there be substrings of symbols?
No, there can't. The reason is that R5RS does not allow it. And, guile
follows R5RS. IMO, that is a good decision: We benefit from the
possibility to take scheme code from other schemes (slib is an
example). Introducing arbitrary incompatibilities does not help the
community, which already is small compared to perl, tcl and python.
Best regards,
Dirk Herrmann
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