Can you say what your goals are? -- apologies for brevity / using handheld gizmo --
> On Dec 17, 2014, at 20:49, John Cowan <co...@mercury.ccil.org> wrote: > > I'd appreciate getting feedback on the pre-SRFI version of a library I > have designed for immutable shared character sequences called "spans". > It's available at <http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/StringSlicesCowan> > (the term "string slice" is no longer used). Here are the current issues: > > 1) Is "character span" a satisfactory name? > > 2) Allow negative indices in make-span and subspan? Convenient, but > irregular. > > 3) Titlecase doesn't really fit; keep it? > > 4) Keep string trees? > > 5) Keep compatibility routines, possibly in a different package? > > 6) I have made the argument order of string-tabulate compatible with SRFI > 1 list-tabulate rather than SRFI 13's string-tabulate; the discrepancy > was accidental. Revert to SRFI 13 argument order? > > 7) Currently string-mismatch returns a cursor into its second > argument. Should it return a cursor into the first argument, or into > both arguments? (In Chibi it makes no difference.) > > 8) Keep in-char-set?? It creates a dependency on SRFI 14, but is essential > for SRFI 13 emulation. > > 9) Bring back -ci variants of the prefix and suffix operations and > span-compare from SRFI 13? > > -- > John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org > It was dreary and wearisome. Cold clammy winter still held sway in this > forsaken country. The only green was the scum of livid weed on the dark > greasy surfaces of the sullen waters. Dead grasses and rotting reeds loomed > up in the mists like ragged shadows of long-forgotten summers. > --LOTR, "The Passage of the Marshes" > > _______________________________________________ > Scheme-reports mailing list > Scheme-reports@scheme-reports.org > http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list Scheme-reports@scheme-reports.org http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
