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Re: The empty string and other empty strings
From: |
Mike Gran |
Subject: |
Re: The empty string and other empty strings |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:28:27 -0800 (PST) |
> From: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
> A related question: can we have both narrow and wide empty strings?
The intention is that a string is encoded as wide only if it can't
be encoded as narrow. So _newly created_ empty strings should only be narrow.
Right now it seems that zero-length shared substring of a wide string is
wide. A zero-length substring still shares the stringbuf of the
original string.
(%string-dump
(substring
(apply string (map integer->char (list 2001 2002 2003)))
3))
So I guess the answer is that you can have both wide and narrow empty
strings if you believe that zero-length substrings need to point to a
zero-length part of the stringbuf of the parent string from which
they were generated. This is a little pedantic, but I think it might
be the right answer.
What do you think about that? Do zero-length substrings need to
still share stringbufs with their parent strings?
In any case, a string-copy of a narrow substring of an otherwise wide string
should be a new narrow string. This should apply to zero-length
substrings as well. This isn't happening, because we're missing
a scm_i_try_narrow_string in string-copy, which is a bug.
Thanks,
Mike
- Re: Guile BUG: What's wrong with this?, (continued)
- Re: Guile BUG: What's wrong with this?, David Kastrup, 2012/01/07
- Re: Guile BUG: What's wrong with this?, Mark H Weaver, 2012/01/07
- Re: Guile BUG: What's wrong with this?, Mark H Weaver, 2012/01/07
- Re: Guile BUG: What's wrong with this?, Mike Gran, 2012/01/07
- Re: Guile BUG: What's wrong with this?, Ludovic Courtès, 2012/01/07
- The empty string and other empty strings, Ludovic Courtès, 2012/01/10
- Re: The empty string and other empty strings,
Mike Gran <=
- Re: The empty string and other empty strings, Mark H Weaver, 2012/01/10
- Re: The empty string and other empty strings, Mike Gran, 2012/01/10
- Re: The empty string and other empty strings, Mark H Weaver, 2012/01/10
- Re: The empty string and other empty strings, David Kastrup, 2012/01/10
- Re: The empty string and other empty strings, Mark H Weaver, 2012/01/10
- Re: The empty string and other empty strings, Ludovic Courtès, 2012/01/12
- Re: The empty string and other empty strings, David Kastrup, 2012/01/13
- Re: The empty string and other empty strings, Mark H Weaver, 2012/01/13
- Re: The empty string and other empty strings, David Kastrup, 2012/01/13
- Re: The empty string and other empty strings, Marijn, 2012/01/16