Scheme language standardization process
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Per Bothner <per@x> wrote: > > I thinking a simple buffer-gap implementation might be cheap enough > that it could serve as the standard implementation of mutable strings. > This especially makes sense if an implementation uses a variable-length > string representation, like UTF-8 or UTF-16, since in that case you > kind of need it anyway. A gap buffer is a pretty inefficient choice for text buffers. There is plenty of prior art for various buffer representations, including several Scheme text editors, but there are a lot of API choices and tradeoffs involved. This is an area people should be exploring and writing multiple alternatives for Snow. It's definitely not ready for standardization. -- Alex _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list Scheme-reports@x http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports