SRFI-13 string library -- request for comments & reviews

[Klaus Schilling <Klaus dot Schilling at munich dot netsurf dot de>]

shivers@ai.mit.edu writes:
 > I think a rich string library is *very important* for the guile community,
 > since things like scripting, web applications, text editing, and so forth
 > -- the things dead center in guile's application space -- involve a lot
 > of string processing. I would be very interested in getting the input of

Yes, of course. Especially if one wants to provide automated translators
for string-processing languages like snobol, tcl, icon, perl, ... 

 > the people working on guile, so that we can develop a library that y'all
 > will find useful for your work.
 > 
Does S. Bevan's work on string manipulation for R4RS scheme enter
somehow?

 > Guile provides shared-text substrings (right?)

Exactly, though the implementation of them is in flux, as are many things
in guile.

 >-- you all will be glad to
 > know I have carefully designed the library to accomodate implementations
 > that have this feature.
 > 
That was more or less my trouble with bevan's string lib, it was awfully
slow.

Klaus Schilling