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Re: [Scheme-reports] Comments on draft 7



On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Takashi Kato <ktakashi@x> wrote:
On 10/11/2012 11:06, Alex Shinn wrote:
The set of characters supported and the set of characters
supported within strings are not necessarily the same.
Implementations may not support #\null within strings, but
they must support the character.
It just doesn't make any sense to me that string can't handle #\null but character can since string is a sequence of characters and it just seems an ugly inconsistency.

If implementations must support the same range both string and character, it seems much simpler and have more consistency, IMHO. (of course it doesn't matter which range it follows.)

The inconsistency already existed separately from #\null.
It existed historically from characters with buckey-bits
(i.e. keystrokes represented as characters).  It exists now
in several implementations which support Unicode characters
but not Unicode strings.

-- 
Alex
 
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