Re: [Chicken-hackers] substring function and bounds checks

[Michele La Monaca]

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:35 AM, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:

> What Scheme is really about, if it has to be said to be about something,
> is implementation choice.  Schemes provide and extend the language in
> different ways, and you pick the one that provides the levels of speed,
> safety, size, compilation speed, debuggability, or whatever other factors
> you want.

The funny thing looking at the implementation is that it actually does
the check (so no speed) only to have a better opportunity to crash (so
no safety).

Regards,
Michele