Am Mo., 5. Okt. 2020 um 21:18 Uhr schrieb Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
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> But I'm wondering now if perhaps string->bytestring is a confusing
> idea, at least in name.  string->bytestring and bytestring->string are
> basically read/write with string-port I/O, respectively.  With a
> reader/writer which recognizes the SNB external representation, we get
> this for free.  So perhaps the handling of the SNB representation
> could be advantageously left to the reader/writer, entirely?
>
> This would accord with the way Scheme handles other external
> representations.  There is, for example, no "string->string" procedure
> for parsing the external representation of strings.

+1