Re: [Scheme-reports] [scheme-reports-wg2] Re: Requesting early review of a character sequence library

[Peter Bex <Peter.Bex@x>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 05:17:03PM +0900, Alex Shinn wrote:
> > For special optimization cases something like this library may be
> > > useful, but I'd like to see it implemented and used for a while before
> > > we decide whether it's good for general purpose code, and further
> > > whether to standardize it.
> >
> > Agreed, but SRFIs are not standards.
> >
> 
> I was +1'ing Per's sentiment that this not be part of a standard.
> >From the lists you're sending it to it would seem this is intended for R7RS
> large.

You make a strong argument, and I would like to express my agreement.
The duplication is too ugly to be standardized.  I still believe the
optional start/end argument stuff is a problem to be solved, but not
in this way.

Cheers,
Peter
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