Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg

[John Cowan]

Tobia Conforto scripsit:

> So they're ditching {"byte", u"unicode"} strings in favor of {b"byte",  
> "unicode"} ones?  What are they ditching exactly?  It seems to me  
> they're just switching the default.

Maybe so, but the word "just" is probably not appropriate, as switching
defaults has a huge knock-on effect on systems that expect strings to
be bytes.  That said, my understanding of the Python software ecology
is not deep.

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