Vincent Manis writes: > On 2011-05-01, at 23:18, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > > > I think the -u8- family of names is good precisely because there will > > be a whole family of like-named procedures in the large language. The > > main rationale for having these in the small language is, I think, to > > provide a necessary infrastructure for a larger language. > > If WG2 is planning on providing READ-U16 et al, then I withdraw my > suggestion. If not, I reaffirm it. :)
Indeed. I think, if they are renamed here now, then a larger library is likely to provide aliases later. These -u8- names occur also in the blob interface, which looks to me like infrastructure for both more IO and homogeneous numeric arrays. _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
