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Re: Guile: What's wrong with this?


From: Bruce Korb
Subject: Re: Guile: What's wrong with this?
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:08:07 -0800
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On 01/04/12 11:43, Andy Wingo wrote:
The correct behavior is the status quo.  We are considering adding a
hack to produce different behavior for compatibility purposes.  We don't
have to worry about correctness in that case, only compatibility.  IMO
anyway :)

It would be a nice added benefit if it worked as one would expect.
viz., you make actual, writable copies of strings you pull in so that
if the string-upcase function were to modify its input, then it
would not affect other SCMs with values that happen to be the same
sequence of bytes.



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