Re: [Scheme-reports] poll: invalid item #315 from 5th ballot Alex Shinn (29 Oct 2012 08:53 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] poll: invalid item #315 from 5th ballot Alex Shinn 29 Oct 2012 08:52 UTC

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:42 PM, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
>> As long as R7RS has bytevector, then string should be able to
>> contain #\null otherwise user need to know the length of #\null,
>> then string->utf16 procedure cannot simply be provided. (if R7RS has it)
>
> R7RS-small does not have it, although an implementation may provide it,
> and it will probably exist in R7RS-large.

Note you can portably write string->utf16 in R7RS small even
without assuming #\null is allowed in strings.

--
Alex

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