Re: rfi: immutable strings

[Mike Gran]

> Hello,
> 
> Guile needs immutable strings.  String literals should be immutable, so
> that its characters can come directly from objcode.  Also, the result of
> (symbol->string 'foo) should be immutable; currently symbol->string
> conses up a new shared substring every time.

How is this different from read-only strings?

(BTW, you guys are doing some cool stuff right now.  I wish I could dig in,
but I'll be AWOL for a few more weeks trying to get updates of my other
projects out the door.)

-Mike