[r6rs-discuss] [ANN] scheme-reports.org

[Vitaly Magerya]

On 24/08/2009, John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:
> As you know, I'd like to see characters flushed from Scheme and all
> other languages. That's not practical, though, given the high barriers
> to removing IEEE Scheme features from small Scheme.

John, can you elaborate on such design? Particularity, is there an equivalent
to string-ref in this model? If there is none, how do you decompose a string?

It seems that substring searching or regexp-matching without chars is only
doable after you encode a string and store it in a byte array, which is not
very convenient; any way around that?

Feel free to point me to previous messages, since I skipped parts
of the unicode discussion.