On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Andre van Tonder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 20 May 2011, Andy Wingo wrote: > >> On Fri 20 May 2011 04:58, "Aaron W. Hsu" <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> On Thu, 19 May 2011 13:05:25 -0400, Andy Wingo <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I am still in strong favor of changing this name to bytevector instead of >>> blob. >> >> FWIW, I am mildly in favor, though the concision of "blob-length" over >> "bytevector-length" is a point in blob's favor. > > Conciseness is in my opinion underappreciated in Scheme. It is > important to the practical programmer. > > _______________________________________________ > Scheme-reports mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports >
Blobs are also something you'll run into as a "practical programmer," in databases, device drivers, &c. That the name is concise is pretty nice too. -- ==== Q. How many Prolog programmers does it take to change a lightbulb? A. No. _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
