From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Wide character implementation References: <87wuw92lhc.fsf@becket.becket.net> <3225524036151618@naggum.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3225694477809279@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:14:25 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1016705665 193.71.199.50 (Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:14:25 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:14:25 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:29734 * Pekka P. Pirinen | Note that it is the programmer's responsibility to choose and declare | suitable character and string types, if they want to write a program | that works efficiently with both BASE-CHAR and larger character sets. If they want that, they should always use the types string and character. Only if the programmer knows that he creates base-string and with with base-char objects, should he so declare them. Since string is carefully worded to be a collection of types, an implementation that declares strings exlusively will work for all subtypes of string. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.