Re: [Chicken-users] multilingual fowl

[Felix Winkelmann]

Alex Shinn wrote:
> The following 9 R5RS procedures would be changed:
>
>   make-string string string-ref string-set! string-length
>   substring string->list list->string string-fill!
>
> I'm guessing these don't get inlined, but in unit extras we would have
> 3 I/O procedures:
>
>   read-string write-string read-token
>
> and 7 string procedures:
>
>   string-chop string-translate string-translate*
>   substring=? substring-ci=? substring-index substring-index-ci

The following of those you list above get currently inlined:

string-ref  string-set!  string-length

Wouldn't string=? and string-ci=? have to be treated specially
as well?


> [...] Strings, on the other hand, are sluts [...]

I understand.

> > I just hope that one day I don't have to debug klingon source code... ;-)
>
>
> Ah... sorry about the poor readability of the code, I just threw that
> together in a couple hours to see if there was any interest in it.
> I'll clean it up :)

Ahem, that was actually a lame joke about unicode aware languages.
Ignore it, please... :-)


cheers,
felix