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[John Cowan]

Brian Mastenbrook scripsit:

> At this point I'm reasonably convinced that the data type for code  
> points need not be disjoint from the string data type,

My life has not been worthless.

> though I think  
> that a predicate to distinguish a string containing a single code  
> point from other strings is still necessary.

I agree:  (lambda (x) (= (string-codepoint-length x) 1)) does the job.

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