Re: Incompatibility with SRFI-4
Michael Sperber 12 Mar 2005 15:33 UTC
>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Feeley <xxxxxx@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
Marc> I wonder why you did not use the SRFI-4 names for your byte-vector
Marc> procedures.
Because I wanted the names to make sense in a context where SRFI 4 is
not available, or the user doesn't know about it. "u8vector" seemed
too much of a mouthful if the others aren't there.
Marc> I just don't see any good reason to invent a new SRFI-4
Marc> incompatible API for byte-vectors given that many Scheme
Marc> implementations currently support SRFI-4.
There's no incompatibility, as the names I use are completely disjoint
from those of SRFI. Both can co-exist peacefully.
I should probably put in a note that a Scheme system that supports
SRFI 4 is expected to use the same underlying type as u8vector.
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Cheers =8-} Mike
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