Subject: Re: strings and characters From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 2000/03/17 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3162290151959539@naggum.no> * Pekka P. Pirinen | Who replaced #:Erik with a bad imitation? geez... | You've read a different standard than I, since many places actually say | "of type CHARACTER or a subtype" -- superfluously, since the glossary | entry for "subtype" says "Every type is a subtype of itself." sigh. this is so incredibly silly it isn't worth responding to. | I suspect it was removed because it was realized that there would have to | be many types of STRING (at least 8-byte and 16-byte), and hence there | wasn't a single subtype of CHARACTER that would be associated with | strings. Whatever the reason, we can only go by what the standard says. the STRING type is a union type, and there are no other union types in Common Lisp. this should give you a pretty powerful hint, if you can get away from your "bad imitation" attitude problem and actually listen, but I guess that is not very likely at this time. #:Erik