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Re: kawa-java string compatibility proposal
Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:
> Also, any plan to implement <immutable-string> using <java.lang.String>
> will require first changing the implementation of <symbol> to be
> <gnu.mapping.Symbol>. That is somewhat more straight-forward, since it
> doesn't require union types, but it will break some code. What are
> people's feeling about this?
Do whatever's the right thing. Kawa Scheme has a lot more future than
it has history.
There will be work finding and fixing places where my code assumes
<symbol> is <java.lang.String>, but it will be manageable.