Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg

[John Cowan]

Graham Fawcett scripsit:

> Just curious, whence the 'restricted' terminology? I would have
> thought 'utf8 and raw/byte strings' since that's the practical
> implication.

Restricted strings are restricted to holding characters between #\x0
and #\xFF.  Unrestricted strings can hold any character between #\x0
and #x\u10FFFF.  Chicken characters in fact go up to #x\u1FFFFF.
This says nothing about implementation, just interface.

Byte vectors, as distinct from restricted strings, hold integers in the
range 0 to 255.

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