Re: Remaining work on SRFI 178 Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe 18 Aug 2020 04:28 UTC

On 2020-08-17 10:48 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 2:00 AM Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen <
> xxxxxx@nieper-wisskirchen.de> wrote:
>
> - For clarity, bitvector= should mention equality of lengths.
> >
> - R7RS has boolean=?, char=?, string=?, etc. Thus, bitvector= should be
> > named bitvector=?

I don't think this naming change is worth it.  Many SRFIs drop the ?
on equivalence procedures.  In particular, SRFI 133 has vector= and
160 has @vector=.  Both of these SRFIs are closely related to 178, so
I think it would actually be clearer to follow their naming here.

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