Re: Using libunistring for string comparisons et al

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> Any change to Guile's internal character encoding should not start from
> the premise that string-ref is obsolete or unimportant, especially
> considering that there is no other standard "string pointer" mechanism.

+1

There are idioms like:

  (let ((start (string-index s #\,))
        (end   (string-rindex s #\,)))
    (substring s (+ 1 start) end))

which may not have a better equivalent (sometimes ‘string-tokenize’ can
be used, sometimes not.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.