Re: String internals sketch

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com> writes:

>> On Mar 10, 2017, at 7:31 AM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>> I've been mulling a bit over enabling UTF-8 as an internal string
>> representation.  There are several interesting points to consider:
>
> One point to consider on this topic is that guile is targeted (via the
> compiler tower) to support other languages.  Strings in ecmascript,
> for example, are 16-bit code points, not 8 or 32.  I personally don’t
> care that the guile-2.2 hosted ecmascript can’t be a pedantic
> implementation, but it may generate issues so some down the road.

Well, that's an "engine" one would need to create complete support for.
Some things would be nicer to specify via C++ templates rather than
function hooks.  C macros can sort-of be used for providing similar
functionality, but they are quite more opaque to compiler, debugger, and
programmer and more ad-hoc.

Not proposing to move to C++: that would seriously impact the ability to
integrate into other systems.  Just a musing.

-- 
David Kastrup