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bytestring isn't a datatype, right? Shiro Kawai (07 Oct 2020 10:01 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? John Cowan (07 Oct 2020 15:15 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (07 Oct 2020 16:15 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (07 Oct 2020 16:47 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (07 Oct 2020 18:21 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? Shiro Kawai (07 Oct 2020 21:06 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? Lassi Kortela (08 Oct 2020 13:07 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? Shiro Kawai (08 Oct 2020 13:13 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (08 Oct 2020 13:24 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? John Cowan (10 Oct 2020 07:42 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? Shiro Kawai (10 Oct 2020 09:38 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (10 Oct 2020 15:04 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? John Cowan (10 Oct 2020 20:40 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (10 Oct 2020 23:08 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? John Cowan (11 Oct 2020 03:20 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (11 Oct 2020 08:26 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? Daphne Preston-Kendal (11 Oct 2020 08:39 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? John Cowan (11 Oct 2020 08:42 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (11 Oct 2020 09:10 UTC)
Optional features in SRFIs again, this time with syntax Lassi Kortela (11 Oct 2020 11:38 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (11 Oct 2020 18:22 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (11 Oct 2020 18:31 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (11 Oct 2020 17:20 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? John Cowan (14 Oct 2020 15:20 UTC)
Comparing two vectors Lassi Kortela (08 Oct 2020 13:13 UTC)
Re: Comparing two vectors John Cowan (08 Oct 2020 15:01 UTC)
Re: Comparing two vectors Lassi Kortela (08 Oct 2020 20:42 UTC)
Re: bytestring isn't a datatype, right? Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe 10 Oct 2020 15:04 UTC 
On 2020-10-10 03:42 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Bitvectors *are* a separate data type.  "Bytestring" is the name of a
> library, not of a data type.

Fine.  That makes sense to me.

> > bytestring=? is particularly confusing here.  It's just bytevector=?,
> > word for word.
>
> I've removed it from the SRFI and added a reference to (rnrs bytevectors)
> and the equivalent (scheme bytevector).

I've removed it from the sample implementation.  Are we going to go
ahead with the SRFI split?  If so, I'll wait for that to happen before
making any more pull requests.

Thanks for the clarifications.

--
Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe  <xxxxxx@sigwinch.xyz>

"The Algol compiler was so poorly implemented that we dared not rely
on it, and working with assembler code was considered dishonorable.
There remained only Fortran." --Niklaus Wirth