Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] SUBSTRING and SET-STRING-MAXIMUM-LENGTH!

[Joe Marshall]

I assumed that SET-STRING-MAXIMUM-LENGTH! was called for
efficiency reasons, otherwise SUBSTRING would work just fine.

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Taylor R Campbell<address@hidden> wrote:
>   Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 16:03:48 -0700
>   From: Joe Marshall <address@hidden>
>
>   Would this work?
>
>   DEFINE_PRIMITIVE ("STRING-HEAD!", Prim_set_string_maximum_length, 2, 2, 0)
>   ...                                   (^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^?)
>
> Why not just write it in Scheme, with a comment about why it has to
> check whether SET-STRING-MAXIMUM-LENGTH! worked?
>



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