[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] String positions and string slices

[Shiro Kawai]

From: Chris Hanson <cph at csail.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] [Formal] String positions and string slices
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:11:27 -0400

> The historical string abstraction should remain vectors of 8-bit (or 7-bit)
> characters with side effects.

What kind of history is that?  I was using 16-bit/char Scheme
subset back in early 90s.  Major Scheme implementations have
switched to large character sets only recently, but that doesn't
mean Scheme as the language has been using 8-bit/char uniformly.

--shiro