using a character as argument to string-append!/string-append-linear!

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using a character as argument to string-append!/string-append-linear! Per Bothner (16 Apr 2020 16:12 UTC)

Re: using a character as argument to string-append!/string-append-linear! John Cowan (17 Apr 2020 16:20 UTC)

Re: using a character as argument to string-append!/string-append-linear! Per Bothner (17 Apr 2020 16:40 UTC)

Re: using a character as argument to string-append!/string-append-linear! John Cowan (18 Apr 2020 13:13 UTC)

Re: using a character as argument to string-append!/string-append-linear! Per Bothner (18 Apr 2020 14:52 UTC)

Re: using a character as argument to string-append!/string-append-linear! John Cowan (18 Apr 2020 20:13 UTC)

Re: using a character as argument to string-append!/string-append-linear! Per Bothner (18 Apr 2020 20:40 UTC)

using a character as argument to string-append!/string-append-linear! Per Bothner 16 Apr 2020 16:12 UTC

SRFI-118 allows non-initial arguments to be either a character or a string.
That doesn't appear to be the case for SRFI-185.
However, the translate-space-to-newline example includes the line:
    (string-append! result #\newline)
which appends a characters.

So either fix the example or (better) adjust the specification to match SRFI-118:
Having to explicitly convert a character to a string is simple, but less efficient
(unless optimized away), more verbose, and less convenient.
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