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authorMarius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>2004-09-22 14:59:23 +0000
committerMarius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>2004-09-22 14:59:23 +0000
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@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@ This is an implementation of SRFI-31 which provides a special form
** The modules (srfi srfi-13) and (srfi srfi-14) have been merged with
the core, making their functionality always available.
-The modules are still available, tho, and you use them together with a
-renaming import, for example.
+The modules are still available, tho, and you could use them together
+with a renaming import, for example.
** Guile now includes its own version of libltdl.
@@ -159,11 +159,17 @@ be used with '-e'. For example, you can now write a script like
* Changes to Scheme functions and syntax
-** There is now support for copy-on-write substrings and
- mutation-sharing substrings.
+** There is now support for copy-on-write substrings, mutation-sharing
+ substrings and read-only strings.
-Two new procedures are related to this: substring/shared and
-substring/copy. See the manual for more information.
+Three new procedures are related to this: substring/shared,
+substring/copy, and substring/read-only. See the manual for more
+information.
+
+** String literals are now read-only.
+
+Use string-copy or similar to make a copy if you really want to modify
+such a string.
** New syntax '@' and '@@':