[Scheme-reports] fresh empty strings Andy Wingo (20 Jan 2012 21:35 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] fresh empty strings Andy Wingo (20 Jan 2012 22:03 UTC)
Re: fresh empty strings Arthur A. Gleckler (20 Jan 2012 22:55 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] fresh empty strings John Cowan (21 Jan 2012 03:36 UTC)
Re: fresh empty strings Arthur A. Gleckler (21 Jan 2012 06:56 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] fresh empty strings Andy Wingo (21 Jan 2012 13:24 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] fresh empty strings John Cowan (21 Jan 2012 13:34 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] fresh empty strings Andy Wingo (21 Jan 2012 13:47 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] fresh empty strings John Cowan (21 Jan 2012 14:38 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] fresh empty strings Aubrey Jaffer (21 Jan 2012 18:31 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] fresh empty strings John Cowan (21 Jan 2012 19:04 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] fresh empty strings Ray Dillinger (21 Jan 2012 17:05 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] fresh empty strings John Cowan 21 Jan 2012 14:38 UTC

Andy Wingo scripsit:

> An empty string (vector, bytevector, etc) does not have any locations
> for the characters, but it does have a location for the length.

How do you figure that?  The length is a value associated with the object,
certainly, but since it can't be changed (necessarily, not just contingently
like the locations in a non-empty literal), it doesn't seem to me to be
a location.

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