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SRFI-13 string library -- request for comments & reviews
- To: shivers at ai dot mit dot edu
- Subject: SRFI-13 string library -- request for comments & reviews
- From: Klaus Schilling <Klaus dot Schilling at munich dot netsurf dot de>
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 11:00:49 +0100 (CET)
- Cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <199911220220.VAA04611@mongkok.ai.mit.edu>
- Reply-To: Klaus dot Schilling at munich dot netsurf dot de
shivers@ai.mit.edu writes:
> I think a rich string library is *very important* for the guile community,
> since things like scripting, web applications, text editing, and so forth
> -- the things dead center in guile's application space -- involve a lot
> of string processing. I would be very interested in getting the input of
Yes, of course. Especially if one wants to provide automated translators
for string-processing languages like snobol, tcl, icon, perl, ...
> the people working on guile, so that we can develop a library that y'all
> will find useful for your work.
>
Does S. Bevan's work on string manipulation for R4RS scheme enter
somehow?
> Guile provides shared-text substrings (right?)
Exactly, though the implementation of them is in flux, as are many things
in guile.
>-- you all will be glad to
> know I have carefully designed the library to accomodate implementations
> that have this feature.
>
That was more or less my trouble with bevan's string lib, it was awfully
slow.
Klaus Schilling