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is #f a valid index? Duy Nguyen (29 Jan 2020 12:23 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? Arthur A. Gleckler (02 Mar 2020 23:14 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? Arthur A. Gleckler (05 Apr 2020 22:45 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? John Cowan (25 Jun 2020 21:20 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? Alex Shinn (25 Jun 2020 23:37 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? John Cowan (25 Jun 2020 23:47 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? Alex Shinn (26 Jun 2020 00:23 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? John Cowan (26 Jun 2020 01:00 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? Arthur A. Gleckler (25 Jun 2020 23:57 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? Duy Nguyen (29 Jun 2020 09:13 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? Arthur A. Gleckler (29 Jun 2020 14:39 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? Duy Nguyen (30 Jun 2020 08:59 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? Alex Shinn (30 Jun 2020 09:18 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? Duy Nguyen (30 Jun 2020 09:25 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (30 Jun 2020 09:35 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? Duy Nguyen (30 Jun 2020 09:42 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (30 Jun 2020 09:47 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? Duy Nguyen (30 Jun 2020 09:52 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (30 Jun 2020 10:01 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? Duy Nguyen (30 Jun 2020 10:11 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? Duy Nguyen (30 Jun 2020 09:37 UTC)
Fwd: is #f a valid index? Arthur A. Gleckler (01 Jul 2020 20:22 UTC)
Re: is #f a valid index? Arthur A. Gleckler (14 Sep 2020 15:45 UTC)

Re: is #f a valid index? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen 30 Jun 2020 10:01 UTC

Am Di., 30. Juni 2020 um 11:52 Uhr schrieb Duy Nguyen <xxxxxx@gmail.com>:

> I figured as much, but why would you want that? Index-as-fixnum is
> returned by plenty other functions, using fixnum for byte offset just
> opens more opportunity of using a fixnum for a wrong purpose. Plus

This is due to SRFI 130's adhoc polymorphism, I believe.

> byte offset is not useful in scheme anyway, you can't access any
> character with a byte offset unless you go through a horrible process
> of converting a string to u8vector or something.

The implementation should have ways to access the underlying Unicode
character at a byte offset.