I'm strongly in favor of u8 for consistency with SRFI 4 and for future
extensions of the SRFI (for I/O of 16 bit values, etc).

Marc

On 22-May-05, at 6:03 AM, Michael Sperber wrote:

>
> Many thanks for the suggestions on the naming of "byte".  I'd like to
> conduct a little poll to help decide the issue.  Three proposals are
> on the table:
>
> "byte": i.e., leave things as they are.
>
> "octet": replace "byte" by "octet"
>   This makes it unambiguously clear that we're dealing with values in
>   the range [0, 255].
>
> "u8": Replace "byte-vector" by "u8vector" and lone uccurrences of
>   "byte" to "u8" and "bytes" to "u8-some."
>
> Please vote on the list by following up on this message; a simple body
> consisting of "byte," "octet," or "u8" will suffice.
>
> --
> Cheers =8-} Mike
> Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla