Re: predicate->char-set considered harmful Brad Lucier 18 Dec 2000 21:19 UTC

My unstated (definitely understated) point is that predicate->bitset
will never return in the general case, which isn't much different from
how long it will take predicate->char-set to return on systems that use
a four-byte character representation.

Brad

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>    I hope you don't try to define predicate->bitset in a later SRFI ;-).
>
> Well, I guess it's too late to put it into the lset-... suite of operations
> in SRFI 1...
>     -Olin
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