Scheme Request for Implementation 185,
"Linear adjustable-length strings,"
by John Cowan,
has gone into "final" status.

The document and an archive of the discussion are available at https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-185/.

Here's the abstract:

Scheme specifies mutable fixed-length strings. SRFI 118 adds two procedures, string-append! and string-replace!, which allow the length of the string to change. This SRFI provides two linear-update versions of these procedures: that is, the implementation may change the string length or return a new string instead. In addition, two convenience macros are provided that make the procedures somewhat easier to use.

Here is the commit summary since the most recent draft:

• string-append-linear! accepts chars
• editorial fixes
• Make small change from John Cowan.
• macro consistent with procedure
• Clarify.
• Add favicon.
• Fix errors reported by W3C HTML Validator.
• Finalize SRFI 185.
• Punctuate.

Here are the diffs since the most recent draft:

https://github.com/scheme-requests-for-implementation/srfi-185/compare/draft-3..final

Many thanks to John and to everyone who contributed to the discussion of this SRFI.

Regards,

SRFI Editor