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

[Graham Fawcett]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:22 PM, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
>  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.

Just curious, whence the 'restricted' terminology? I would have
thought 'utf8 and raw/byte strings' since that's the practical
implication.

G