I agree that SRFI 152 is rather boring after the excitements of SRFI 130 and SRFI 135 (and, back in the day, SRFI 13). But not one comment about it after three drafts? That seems excessively neglectful. So far, nobody except me and Art Gleckler seem to have even read it.
In the hopes of spurring some discussion, I'll reprint here the differences between SRFI 152 and SRFI 13:
This SRFI omits the following bells, whistles, and gongs of SRFI 13:
the Knuth-Morris-Pratt string search algorithm (still used internally by the sample implementation but not exposed)
case-insensitive operations, other than the ones in R7RS-small
titlecase operations
direct comparison of substrings
mutation procedures, other than the ones in R7RS-small
string reversal
characters and SRFI 14 character sets as alternatives to predicates
In addition, SRFI 152 includes a few new procedures like string-segment, which breaks up a string into fixed-length substrings, and I plan to add drop-while-right and take-while-right and perhaps a few others.
Any comments, pleeeeease?
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