Re: [Chicken-users] Bug in SRFI-13 lib?

[felix winkelmann]

On Feb 17, 2008 1:46 AM, Matt Gushee <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>    Does string= in Chicken return an integer because it is considered
>    more useful than #t? And if so, how? Or was it simply easier to
>    implement the function that way?
>

It does this because chicken uses the reference implementation code
originally by Olin Shivers. A decision that I greatly regret, as there were
many bugs and the API generally is pretty uninspired.

So, it isn't intentionally that way, it's just what the code does.


cheers,
felix