[r6rs-discuss] Unicode issues

[Thomas Lord]

John Cowan wrote:
> Thomas Lord scripsit:
>
>   
>> If you want to find a "design motif" that explains R6's char
>> and string types, I think you need look no further than to see
>> that they are more or less a direct transliteration of the way
>> scalar values and locale-independent string processing are defined
>> in the Unicode standard.
>>     
>
> Quite so, and IMHO a Good Thing Too.
>   

That does seem to be the main rationale.



>> (This is, of course, a regression from lisp tradition and Scheme
>> tradition in which the character type was extensible and far more
>> abstract.)
>>     
>
> I note that CL made a similar regression when it eliminated the
> bits and font attributes.
>
>   

Does the CL spec *forbid* adding those features?

-t