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

[Matt Gushee]

felix winkelmann wrote:

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

Thanks for clearing that up.

By the way, I want to say that I really wasn't looking for an argument. 
My initial question was a bit abrupt, and I was too quick to use the 
word "bug." I think there's a bit of culture shock going on here, too
-- most of my programming in the last 4 years or so has been in OCaml. 
One of the main reasons I became interested in Scheme (again) was that I 
came to think that static typing is overrated -- or at least, not as 
universally useful as its advocates like to believe. Nonetheless, I've 
gotten accustomed to a world where datatypes are used very precisely to 
model the semantics of your problem domain. So when I see a function 
behaving in a way that implies semantics that aren't in the spec, it 
just doesn't feel right. Even if I know it's not really a problem in 
practice.

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