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

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:41:08AM +0900, Alex Shinn wrote:
> >>>>> "Kon" == Kon Lovett <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     Kon> Summary: I want a byte-string API. I want string
>     Kon> integrations. I want global UTF8 strings.
> 
> The only way this can happen is to push the UTF8 handling
> into the core of Chicken itself.
> 
> However it would be contrary to Chicken's goal of keeping
> a minimal core with extensions built on top.

How much bigger would this make the core?  I really doubt it
would have much of an impact, and it would sure make lots of
things a lot simpler.

Cheers,
Peter
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