Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg

[John Cowan]

felix winkelmann scripsit:

> A real module system would solve all these problems cleanly.

It wouldn't solve the data-punning problem.  As long as the same object
can be seen one way by one module and another way by another, problems
will continue to be endemic.  To fix that, we need two run-time types,
which I hereby dub restricted and unrestricted strings.

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