Re: Overuse of strings

[Alex Shinn <alexshinn@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/26/06, Neil Van Dyke <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [...] I imagine that W3C- and IETF-types would have
> comments wrt the authority component of the URI if the "scheme"
> URI-scheme were proposed.  I suspect some would question whether or not
> a new URI-scheme is needed, which might beg other questions.

The recommended approach would probably be to use a URN (rfc2141):

  urn:scheme://r6rs

Of course, you'd then need to register the "scheme" namespace identifier,
but this is less obtrusive than a "scheme" URI-scheme, and after all we're
talking about names, not locations.

--
Alex