Re: virtualizing vectors and strings

[Dirk Herrmann]

On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Tom Lord wrote:

> 
>       dirk write:
> 
>        That, however, does not imply that virtualizing strings within
>        guile would not make sense, even if once those other
>        possibilities are available. The possibility to extend guile
>        with specialized encodings that are not part of any standard
>        library still seems to be an interesting approach.
> 
> Please explain what you mean by "specialized encodings".

Encodings that users define for special purposes - You could interpret a
huffman encoded sequence of bits as a string encoding, for example.

Best regards
Dirk Herrmann