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Per Bothner scripsit:
> Various changes based on people's suggestions. The only substantive
> change is being more specific that make-string and string-copy must
> return variable-sized strings while the other standard procedures
> don't have to.
This looks very good.
> John Cowan suggested in
> http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-118/mail-archive/msg00002.html 3
> procedures: string-copy, string-variable-copy, string-immutable-copy.
> I didn't incorporate this suggestion, as I'm not convinced cluttering
> up the API this way is worth it.
On reflection, I'm inclined to agree. I now think that
<http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/CharacterSpansCowan> (which will
eventually become a SRFI) is a better approach to immutable strings.
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