[r6rs-discuss] Unicode issues

[Thomas Lord]

Alan Watson wrote:
> Scheme has a functional or immutable string type: symbols. Perhaps 
> what you need to do is add procedures for extracting, concatenating, 
> and perhaps indexing symbols.


That's a tempting point of view but I'm not yet convinced, especially in 
light of XML namespaces, that symbols are forever something as simple as 
immutable strings.   I'm standing pat with disjointness there.

-t