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

[Alex Shinn <alexshinn@x>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Per Bothner <per@x> wrote:

Is this proposed as part of a future Scheme specification? I really hope not.
I find the duplicate set of procedures a very ugly API, and would be strongly against
any language standard that has (for example) both string-any and span-any [...]

+1

From the discussions I had seen I thought the general direction

for a new string API would be based on string-cursors, which have

been implemented and used for some time in multiple Schemes.

String cursors have the advantage that they are a different way to

access the same underlying datatype, so you don't need to

duplicate every API that works with textual data.

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.

-- 

Alex

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