"Kon" == Kon Lovett <address@hidden> writes:
Kon> On Mar 15, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Felix Winkelmann wrote:
Kon> Is this a "char-string" issue or a "byte-string"
Kon> issue? When the source "...string..." is a string
Kon> of ASCII non-nul char then there should be no
Kon> problem w/ the utf8 egg overriding the string
Kon> operators. The problem comes when the source "..."
Kon> is actually a "byte-string".
Kon> I am uncomfortable with that particular Chicken
Kon> idiom.
Kon> How about moving the utf8 egg's
Kon> "byte-string-srfi-13.scm" & "byte- string.scm" into
Kon> the core? Then when a "byte-string" use is intended
Kon> everyone will know.
That's a good idea, but they don't need to be moved into the
core, we can just split them out into a separate egg.