[Pika-dev] Re: Starting work on strings from the scm side

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Jose A Ortega Ruiz <address@hidden>

    > On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:44:15PM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote:

    > > Now that object locks are basically in place, I could go ahead and do
    > > the string wrapping, catching up to what jao has done on the hackerlab
    > > side. OK?

    > hi. i'm afraid hackerlab support is not yet there. if i'm not mistaken,
    > pika strings are to be based on hackerlab's udstr_t and the _fw (fixed
    > width) functions: i'm currently implementing them, but they're not
    > finished. moreover, i think my last patches are not yet integrated in
    > tom's archive. i still have to:

    > - finish the implementation of the 'bogus' encoding
    > - provide the udstr counterparts of most of scheme's string-foo
    > - move the buckybits stuff from pika to hackerlab

    > i'd say it'll take 1-2 weeks...

I _think_ that there's enough API in place to begin the wrapping.

-t