Howdy, On Thu 18 Jun 2009 22:28, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: > >>>> + uniform-array->bytevector >>> >>> I would not export it from `(rnrs bytevector)' given that it has nothing >>> to do with RnRS. >> >> No, but it does have to with bytevectors... Where would you put it? > > Dunno, maybe not anywhere public? Er, I wrote it so I could use it in my code... Not being able to get at the bits of uniform arrays from Scheme has been a sorely missing feature for a long time now... >>> Also, I would make the new C functions private, given that they are not >>> intended for general use AIUI. >> >> Dunno. I could imagine calling both of them from C. Would there be a >> problem with leaving them to be public? > > Yes, while we're not more confident wrt. shared arrays and similar. What do you mean? I think that shared arrays will be attempted to be linearized via scm_array_contents, which will throw an error for a non-contiguous array. That's as good as we can do, no? Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
