From: Kon Lovett <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] blob-literal read syntax
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:48:44 -0700
>
> On Oct 18, 2010, at 1:16 AM, Felix wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I have added read-syntax for blob-literals and currently use
>>
>> #{<hex...>}
>>
>> Since this may block the use of "#{ ... }" for user-defined
>> read-syntax,
>> I want to ask if perhaps another syntax might be preferrable. Any
>> ideas? Or would the syntax above be ok for such a built-in object.
>
> I would rather '#{' not be used. (I want it ;-)
Yes, that was the reason I asked: it would be nice to have this
syntax available for user code.
>
> Suggest '#bv([0..255]...)'.
>
> I am guessing that the motivation for a blob sexp is something like
> Q&D serialization or debugging and not necessarily a prime human
> editable form.
That's correct.
cheers,
felix
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