Re: [Scheme-reports] Bytevectors should be called u8vectors Aubrey Jaffer (03 Jul 2012 14:55 UTC)

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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