Re: string work

On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 05:39:44PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
> 
> How do you feel about working on libhackerlab, for now, rather than
> libscm directly?  That would complement Matthew's work but also is
> something that can proceed mostly separately at its own pace.  In
> fact, this work includes working on the guts of the standard Scheme
> string procedures --- the needed functions are those that will allow
> Pika and Pika applications to be first-class Unicode-using programs;
> you'd be implementing the engine for things like STRING-APPEND and
> STRING-SET!.
> 
> [great implementation roadmap ...]
>

yeah, that sounds good to me. i'll go for it. thanks a lot for the
detailed roadmap, it's exactly what i needed.

so, jivera, please feel free to go on on your work on pika strings if
you feel like it: i promise i won't complain anymore! :)

thanks for your time and patience,
jao