Re: [Scheme-reports] Bytevectors should be called u8vectors

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Re: [Scheme-reports] Bytevectors should be called u8vectors Marc Feeley (03 Jul 2012 13:30 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] Bytevectors should be called u8vectors Jussi Piitulainen (03 Jul 2012 15:18 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] Bytevectors should be called u8vectors Marc Feeley (03 Jul 2012 16:04 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] Bytevectors should be called u8vectors John Cowan (04 Jul 2012 07:20 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] Bytevectors should be called u8vectors Marc Feeley (04 Jul 2012 14:06 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] Bytevectors should be called u8vectors John Cowan (05 Jul 2012 01:19 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] Bytevectors should be called u8vectors Alex Shinn (05 Jul 2012 01:27 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] Bytevectors should be called u8vectors Alan Watson (05 Jul 2012 02:07 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] Bytevectors should be called u8vectors Andy Wingo (15 Jul 2012 19:48 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] Bytevectors should be called u8vectors John Cowan (15 Jul 2012 20:06 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] Bytevectors should be called u8vectors Andy Wingo (15 Jul 2012 20:15 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] Bytevectors should be called u8vectors Andy Wingo (16 Jul 2012 08:29 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] Bytevectors should be called u8vectors Andy Wingo 16 Jul 2012 08:25 UTC

On Sun 15 Jul 2012 21:47, Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> pretty OK.  Often one finds oneself dealing with heterogeneous data --
> not uniform vectors, bytevectors.  The SRFI-4 API does provide for
                                                        ^ not
> aliasing a u8vector to an s8vector, and so the more explicit bytevector
> API is more fundamental.

Sorry for that editing error.  I meant that SRFI-4 does not provide for
aliasing.

Andy
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