Re: The empty string and other empty strings

[Marijn]

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On 13-01-12 17:39, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> However, my mind is not set in stone on this.  Does anyone else
> here agree with David?  Should we defend the legitimacy of this
> optimization, and ask the R7RS working group to include explicit
> language specifying that empty strings/vectors need not be freshly
> allocated?

It seems to me that it can't hurt to ask for clarification of this
issue on scheme-reports. Personally I think the intent of the standard
is to say that you cannot expect (string) to be un-eq? nor eq? to
(string), but let's get a broader perspective.

Marijn
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