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: Using libunistring for string comparisons et al Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:19:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87mxkb1ifu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <486722.32491.qm@web37905.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <87aah1qoc4.fsf@netris.org> <87zkp1p84m.fsf@netris.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301581195 29718 80.91.229.12 (31 Mar 2011 14:19:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:19:55 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 31 16:19:51 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5Ij1-0002fo-G8 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:19:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60179 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5Ij0-0002r7-Vh for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:19:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43448 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5Iip-0002lb-AC for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:19:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5Iik-0000jj-EF for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:19:39 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:53281) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5Iij-0000jS-Np for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:19:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5Iif-0002V4-Oa for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:19:29 +0200 Original-Received: from 193.50.110.208 ([193.50.110.208]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:19:29 +0200 Original-Received: from ludo by 193.50.110.208 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:19:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.50.110.208 X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 11 Germinal an 219 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: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.110013 (No Gnus v0.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LM9m8R8BYQF9Yn2xehf63rz7ifw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:12116 Archived-At: Hello, Andy Wingo writes: > Any change to Guile's internal character encoding should not start from > the premise that string-ref is obsolete or unimportant, especially > considering that there is no other standard "string pointer" mechanism. +1 There are idioms like: (let ((start (string-index s #\,)) (end (string-rindex s #\,))) (substring s (+ 1 start) end)) which may not have a better equivalent (sometimes ‘string-tokenize’ can be used, sometimes not.) Thanks, Ludo’.