[r6rs-discuss] perhaps i should be formal, but....

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Thu Mar 15 23:55:15 2007

MichaelL_at_frogware.com scripsit:

> The other ideas on the table seem to be UCS-4 strings or O(n) string-ref
> for UTF-8/UTF-16 strings. O(n) string-ref would make something as simple
> as searching for a substring in a string rather slow. And there would be
> no standard way of making it faster.


There is nothing, however, that prevents an implementation from providing
a faster implementation that breaks the encapsulation of strings.

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