Hi,
In a number of places in swank.lisp various strings are declared as SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. Is there a reason for this declaration -- in particular, is it expected that these strings will be specialized to hold only BASE-CHAR? Or are they in fact general strings? (at least the version in BRIEFLY-DESCRIBE-SYMBOL-FOR-EMACS leads me to suspect that they are fairly general strings).
If I'm right, could the declaration be changed to reflect this, maybe to SIMPLE-STRING (or even STRING, if they're not in performance-critical areas)? It is likely that sbcl, in the near future, will have multiple string representations, where SIMPLE-BASE-STRING means (SIMPLE-ARRAY BASE-CHAR (*)), which will be distinct from (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER (*)) [ they're currently the same in all known implementations, I believe].
Cheers,
Christophe