Re: [Scheme-reports] fresh empty strings

[Ray Dillinger <bear@x>]

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On 01/24/2012 07:08 AM, John Cowan wrote:

> Indeed.  (let ((a x) (b x)) (eq? a b)) is always true, except where x is
> a character or number.

It's not clear to me that, in a unicode universe, there's a useful
distinction between characters and strings of length 1.  At the very
least, character operations such as case and other such mappings
are not closed on the set of single codepoints, which makes
treating "character" separately from "string" semantically
dubious.

				Bear


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