From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Internal visibility Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:18:40 +0200 Message-ID: <87ej74igmn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k5i5d6ei.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87lk2jhp0h.fsf@gnu.org> <87skwrce8y.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87iqxledzz.fsf@gnu.org> <87lk2futg0.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87fxslr1jr.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <878wxv5t7q.fsf@gnu.org> <87mym6dv6t.fsf@gnu.org> <49dd78620806091110v7a667787mef392fbf4446139d@mail.gmail.com> <87iqwhn3jw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213168784 22928 80.91.229.12 (11 Jun 2008 07:19:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:19:44 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 11 09:20:26 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K6Kd7-00071k-LI for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:20:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43483 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K6KcJ-0004zQ-JZ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:19:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K6Kbl-0004rZ-7K for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:19:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K6Kbj-0004rE-2x for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:19:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52224 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K6Kbi-0004r7-Jy for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:18:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:15689) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K6Kbh-0005VY-Vy for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:18:58 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K6Kbg-0007nB-Lu for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:18:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K6Kbc-0005YF-0U for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:18:52 +0000 Original-Received: from 193.50.110.56 ([193.50.110.56]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:18:52 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by 193.50.110.56 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:18:52 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.50.110.56 X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 24 Prairial an 216 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:R0vT9OupQmnlP66yxv6bxAagNh0= X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7317 Archived-At: Hi, Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > What do I use if I want to have guaranteed O(1) indexing -that is- if > I want to manipulate strings of bytes? That's an interesting but different story: whether `string-{ref,set!}' are O(1) doesn't influence the Scheme/C string conversion API design since, again, it's not desirable to expose Guile's internal string representation. (If you really want to investigate that question, Will Clinger has a very good page on the topic: http://larceny.ccs.neu.edu/larceny-trac/wiki/StringRepresentations .) Thanks, Ludovic.