Re: Pre-Scheme static allocation

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015, at 01:03 AM, Michael Sperber wrote:
> But what you're trying to do still seems odd to me - maybe you can
> provide a little bit more background on why you're trying to do this?
> (I.e. why not just `(string-ref "hello-world" 0)`.)

In this case I would like to keep a buffer of characters that are being
displayed on the screen. So I need to be able to do operations like
"string-ref" and "string-set!" on that buffer. But if I try to do this:

(let ((buf "000000"))
  (string-set! buf 0 #\a)
  (string-ref buf 0))

the pre-scheme compiler inlines 'buf', which obviously is not what I
want.

(I didn't actually know that the pre-scheme string operations worked on
anything other than strings created with 'make-string', but I believe
I'm still left with the same fundamental problem.)

Thanks,
Thomas Hintz