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text = symbol? Marc Feeley (14 Jun 2016 02:37 UTC)
Re: text = symbol? Marc Feeley (14 Jun 2016 02:40 UTC)
Re: text = symbol? Per Bothner (14 Jun 2016 03:45 UTC)
Re: text = symbol? William D Clinger (14 Jun 2016 12:58 UTC)
Re: text = symbol? Marc Feeley 14 Jun 2016 02:40 UTC 
> On Jun 13, 2016, at 10:37 PM, Marc Feeley <xxxxxx@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
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> I would prefer unifying those types rather than adding other ones.  I would be happy with a Scheme with only a single immutable text type (what is now known as a symbol) after all characters are just symbols of length 1, and fixed length mutable strings are a rather low-level concept (they are more an artifact of how text has been historically represented).  In fact some languages

Sorry the sentence got lost…  meant to say some languages (JavaScript, Python, …) only have immutable strings and no character type.

Marc