Re: [Chicken-users] Bug in SRFI-13 lib?

[Kon Lovett]

On Feb 16, 2008, at 3:51 PM, Matt Gushee wrote:

> Elf wrote:
> > string= != string=?
>
> Well, okay, as far as that goes. Maybe I should have mentioned that  
> I am more-or-less a newbie ... this is my 2nd or 3rd time learning  
> Scheme, so I know a few things, but my vocabulary and knowledge of  
> which functions are where are quite limited, e.g., I had forgotten  
> that string=? existed. Nonetheless, I do read documentation, and  
> SRFI-13 says:
>
>   string=  s1 s2 [start1 end1 start2 end2] -> boolean
>
> So I am curious why the Chicken implementation returns an integer.

Scheme treats any value (not (eq? value #f)) as #t so 5 is #t for the  
purposes of truth testing. SRFI-13 'string=' has extra meaning vs.  
'string=?'.

> --
> Matt Gushee
> : Bantam - lightweight file manager : matt.gushee.net/software/ 
> bantam/ :
> : RASCL's A Simple Configuration Language :     matt.gushee.net/ 
> rascl/ :
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chicken-users mailing list
> address@hidden
> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Best Wishes,
Kon