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Ticket 315: null character may not be usable in strings

2012-04-05 09:35:55
WG1 - Core
alexshinn
major
alexshinn
wontfix
source
closed
2011-12-17 15:50:05
defect

We should probably make (string-set! str n #\null) unspecified.

No, we should not! C does strings by convention, but every more recent language I know of, even C++, has a string data type that can handle any character.

In particular, there is no need for this, because we already license implementations to forbid particular characters in strings.

statusnewdecided

The WG decided to reject this proposal.

resolutionwontfix
statusdecidedclosed