Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Problem w/ Utf8 egg: couldn't load case-map-1.dat

[Thomas Chust]

Am 16.09.2005, 01:36 Uhr, schrieb Alex Shinn <address@hidden>:

> [...]
> I'm also considering breaking the utf8 module into 3 modules:
>
>   utf8
>   utf8-srfi-13
>   utf8-srfi-14
>
> which will speed compile and load times (it's a pretty huge module).
> This is also because I plan to write a string-cursor based alternative
> to srfi-13 - string indexes are not a good way to work with utf8
> strings.  Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Hello,

I think this would be a good idea. I regularly use the utf-8 egg, but  
nearly never I need all the procedures provided by it. Also I rarely use  
the utf-8 character classes. Splitting the egg into separate units will  
probably increase both maintainability and usability!

cu,
Thomas