Re: Some comments Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen 30 Sep 2026 09:21 UTC

Am Mi., 30. Sept. 2026 um 11:11 Uhr schrieb Peter McGoron <xxxxxx@mcgoron.com>:
>
>  > The whole thing is quite R6RS-ish anyway, modelled after R6RS's
> enumeration types. In R7RS, I would expect `'big` and `'little` as in
> classical Scheme.
>
> Yes, which is why I added `endianness?` (R6RS should've exposed an
> endianness enum set so that one could use the (rnrs enums (6))
> operations to implement `endianness?`).

Just because the interface is modelled after enumeration types, it
doesn't mean that there is (or should be) an enumeration type behind.

> However, `endianness` is still there, and it is not difficult to
> implement in any hygiene-bending system.
>
> -- Peter McGoron
>