Re: virtualizing vectors and strings

[Dirk Herrmann]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Tom Lord wrote:

> See?  You really want a libc replacement under your Scheme
> implementation.  (And Unicode strings are just one reason, of many.)

Well, then the right place would be to add these things to libc,
right?  As an intermediate solution, one could actually think of using a
library that cleanly provides all of the desired functionality, but still
allows for extensions.  That, however, does not imply that virtualizing 
strings within guile would not make sense, even if once those other
possibilities are available.  The possibility to extend guile with
specialized encodings that are not part of any standard library still
seems to be an interesting approach.

> As a point of curiosity, do any of the core Guile hackers have a copy
> of the Unicode standard (v 3.0 or later)?  Is the Guile project or any
> core hacker a consortium member?  Are you all familiar with the
> resources available at www.unicode.org?

I can answer the 'Are you all familiar with the resources available at
www.unicode.org?' question:  No, since I am not.

Best regards
Dirk Herrmann