Re: [Scheme-reports] Bytevectors should be called u8vectors Aubrey Jaffer (03 Jul 2012 14:55 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Bytevectors should be called u8vectors John Cowan (03 Jul 2012 16:22 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] Bytevectors should be called u8vectors John Cowan 03 Jul 2012 16:22 UTC

Aubrey Jaffer scripsit:

>  | 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.

Not my point.  There is no uniform incantation in pre-R6RS systems to load
a library from the REPL, which is where I do my testing.  Some systems
use `load`, some `require`, some `use`, some other things, and I have
never done the research to determine which uses what.  Since most of my
comparisons have been about core R5RS features, it hasn't really come up.

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