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<hr /><!-- Strings -->

<p>String are enclosed in quotes. Thus <code>&quot;abc&quot;</code>.</p>
<p>They are sequences of characters. The time taken to compare strings is proportional to their length.</p>
<p>The following functions are defined:</p>
<pre class="sourceCode scheme"><code class="sourceCode scheme">    (<span class="kw">string?</span> s)                         <span class="co">; #t if s is a string</span>
    (<span class="kw">make-string</span> n c)                   <span class