On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Aubrey Jaffer <agj@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>  | From: Wolfgang De Meuter <wdmeuter@vub.ac.be>
>  | Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:06:41 +0200
>  |
>  | ...
>  | to me, byte vectors are pretty useless if you don't have a minimal
>  | amount of comfort for encoding/decoding data types.  And, given the
>  | fact that you no longer support this comfort, is there sufficient
>  | support to break down/ build up Scheme data types (integers,
>  | float,…) into / from raw bytes ? I.e., can I convert an integer or
>  | a float to a byte vector?
>
> SLIB provides R4RS/R5RS Scheme code to accomplish these conversions in
> a way which is unaffected by host byte-order.  See:
> <http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/slib/Byte_002fNumber-Conversions.html#Byte_002fNumber-Conversions>

Note this is not truly portable in R4/R5 - you do need read-u8
and write-u8 provided by R6/R7.

--
Alex

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