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> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@xxxxxxxxxx>
bear> 1. Lack of agreement with C conventions over what a character is.
bear> My characters are multi-codepoint sequences and C treats
bear> single codepoints as characters. This makes indexes and counts
bear> in strings wonky.
> It looks like all of these are problems stemming from the restrictions
> on when GC can happen --- is that right? (Your original post didn't
> specify that that was specifically the issue; it just said the SRFI
> would be difficult to implement.)
Oops.
-t