[r6rs-discuss] Proposed NON-features for small Scheme, part 8: string-set! must die

[John Cowan]

Aubrey Jaffer scripsit:

> If anyone cares, other Unicode-supporting language development efforts
> seem to be moving away from the character datatype:
> 
>  Accoring to <http://javascript.crockford.com/survey.html>, JavaScript
>  lacks chars:

[...]

>  Ruby 1.8 used integers for chars (like C).  Ruby 1.9 returns length 1
>  strings from indexing strings.

[...]

>  Python lacks chars:

[...]

Perl, Basic, Q, and Pure also lack characters.  Haskell uses integers as
characters and lists of integers as strings.

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