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Re: volunteer project: srfi 14 (char-sets)
- From: Jim White <jim at pagesmiths dot com>
- To: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- Cc: kawa at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 04:40:27 -0800
- Subject: Re: volunteer project: srfi 14 (char-sets)
- References: <424251C8.6060901@bothner.com>
Per Bothner wrote:
Srfi-13 is requested by multiple people. But it builds on at least a basic
subset of srfi-14 (charsets) so we need someone to do that first. Basic
idea:
...
I've looked around at the existing implementations and they all seem to
rely on vectors to bitmap the charactar sets and mutate them in a
straight forward manner.
I intend to take a crack at this, but I don't want to use bitmaps.
SRFI-14 supports a functional implementation style and that is what
appeals to me (charset records containing procedures compiled as needed
over the builtins). While it isn't necessarily a performance advantage
for Kawa since we only have 16-bit Unicode, the implementation would be
good for 32-bit Unicode and more general range mapping.
Jim