I've been using email since the early 1970s, you'd think I'd know how to use it properly by now. This was meant to go to the list.
Begin forwarded message: > From: Vincent Manis <[email protected]> > Date: 2011 May 2 01:23:37 PDT > To: John Cowan <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Scheme-reports] I/O > > On 2011-05-02, at 01:08, John Cowan wrote: >> Vincent Manis scripsit: >> >>> If WG2 is planning on providing READ-U16 et al, then I withdraw my >>> suggestion. If not, I reaffirm it. :) >> >> There's no current plan to provide higher-order read and write >> operations, but there will be higher-order blob operations, and the read >> and write operations are named consistently with the blob operations. > > The names offend my aesthetic sense precisely because of this, I think of > reading from a binary file as getting an octet from the file and returning it > as a u8 value (i.e., binary files contain octets rather than u8 values). I > suspect I'm on the wilderness on this one, and therefore withdraw the > suggestion. > > -- v
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