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NEWS

@@ -73,6 +73,18 @@ Example:
 (define (bar)
   ...)
 
+** Deprecated: scm_make_shared_substring
+
+Explicit shared substrings will disappear from Guile.
+
+Instead, "normal" strings will be implemented using sharing
+internally, combined with a copy-on-write strategy.
+
+** Deprecated: scm_read_only_string_p
+
+The concept of read-only strings will disappear in next release of
+Guile.
+
 * Changes to the gh_ interface
 
 * Changes to the scm_ interface

RELEASE

@@ -7,9 +7,7 @@ absinthe, etc.  However, the first release containing the module
 system should be called Godot: "This is the one you've been waiting
 for."
 
-* Deprecate `make-shared-substring'!  We should arrange for shared
+* Deprecate `read-only-string?'.
-  substrings to be generated automatically by `substring' and let string
-  mutators copy-on-write to otehr storage.
 
 Before releasing the next version of libguile which is not binary compatible
 with the one released with 1.4:
@@ -55,6 +53,8 @@ In release 1.6:
   SCM_ORD_SIG, SCM_NUM_SIGS
 - remove function scm_call_catching_errors
   (replaced by catch functions from throw.[ch])
+- remove scm_make_shared_substring
+- remove scm_read_only_string_p
 
 
 Modules sort.c and random.c should be factored out into separate

devel/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2000-08-26  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@linnaeus.mit.edu>
+
+	* strings: New directory.
+	
+	* strings/sharedstr.text (sharedstr.text): New file.
+
 2000-08-12  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@linnaeus.mit.edu>
 
 	* translate: New directory.

devel/README

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ policy		Guile policy documents
 
 build		Build/installation process
 
+string		Strings and characters
+
 translation	Language traslation
 
 vm		Virtual machines

libguile/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+2000-08-26  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@linnaeus.mit.edu>
+
+	* environments.c (scm_init_environments): All internal includes in
+	libguile must use the prefix "libguile/" in path names since inly
+	the top-level source directory is on the include list.  (That, in
+	turn, is because we want to distinguish between system header
+	files and hedares files internal to libguile.)
+
+	* strings.c (scm_make_shared_substring, scm_read_only_string_p):
+	Deprecated.
+	(scm_string_length, scm_string_ref, scm_substring,
+	scm_string_append): Don't accept symbols as arguments (R5RS).
+
 2000-08-25  Neil Jerram  <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
 
 	* ports.c (scm_set_port_column_x): Fix docstring so that it