SRFI 175: ASCII character library

by Lassi Kortela

status: final (2019-12-20)

keywords: Data Structure

library name: ascii

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Abstract

This SRFI defines ASCII-only equivalents to many of the character procedures in standard Scheme plus a few extra ones. Recent Scheme standards are based around Unicode but the significant syntactic elements in many file formats and network protocols are all ASCII. Such low-level code can run faster and its behavior can be easier to understand when it uses ASCII primitives.