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Last call: Simple adjustable-size strings Per Bothner (26 Apr 2015 15:16 UTC)
Re: Last call: Simple adjustable-size strings Shiro Kawai (26 Apr 2015 23:44 UTC)
Re: Last call: Simple adjustable-size strings Per Bothner (08 May 2015 06:59 UTC)
Re: Last call: Simple adjustable-size strings Shiro Kawai (08 May 2015 07:33 UTC)
Re: Last call: Simple adjustable-size strings Per Bothner (09 May 2015 22:43 UTC)

Re: Last call: Simple adjustable-size strings Per Bothner 08 May 2015 06:59 UTC

On 04/26/2015 04:44 PM, Shiro Kawai wrote:
> A minor point, which I should've brought up much earlier---the
> argument order of string-replace! is different from srfi-13
> string-replace; the latter takes src string as the second argument,
> before the positions.
> The order in this srfi may make more sense, but I'm afraid
> that having different argument order in very similar named
> procedures cause confusions in future.

It's unfortunate, but:
(1) The specified argument order for string-replace! is documented
and in the wild in Kawa 2.0.
(2) It's not a *direct* conflict.
(3) I think it's more valuable to be compatible with the
argument order instring-copy!.
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