Re: [Jscheme-devel] string.scm from MIT Scheme 7.7.1

[Ken A. <kan...@bb...>]

At 04:28 PM 1/13/2003, Geoffrey Knauth wrote:
>I needed some string handling functions, so I looked at MIT Scheme's src/runtime/string.scm, cannibalized what I needed, and it worked fine in JScheme.  I had to change "fix:" arithmetic function calls to ordinary ones, and decide if I wanted to adopt `guarantee-string'.

While Scheme's built in string handling is minimal, did you do this to be portable among Scheme's or because JScheme's Scheme + Java did not provide what you wanted?

There is good Scheme code out there, but i've tended to get what i wanted from Java.  For example, while SLIB provides a lot of useful tools, the only thing i've used so far is the pretty printer, simply because Java provided whatever else i needed.

Perhaps Scheme code could be more easily converted to JScheme if we implemented some of the SRFI's, but there hasn't been much discussion of this so far.

k