Re: [Scheme-reports] Bytevectors should be called u8vectors
Aubrey Jaffer 03 Jul 2012 14:54 UTC
| Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 03:49:07 -0400
| From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
|
| Marc Feeley scripsit:
|
| > John, given that you have many Scheme implementations installed,
| > can you test how many currently support u8vector-ref and how many
| > support bytevector-u8-ref ?
|
| Not without considerable pain. There is no invocation to bring in
| SRFI 4 that works on even a majority of Schemes, so I would have to
| look up the docs for each one, and there are currently 45 of them.
The SLIB "array" feature implements SRFI-63: Homogeneous and
Heterogeneous Arrays on a majority of R5RS Schemes. It supports more
uniform-types than SRFI-4, including bit-vectors.
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