On 05/22/11 14:53, Andy Wingo wrote: > Less polemically: consistency has a value, but for me it stops well > before the useless "blob-map".
There shouldn't be a blob-map. The very reason for blobs as distinct from u8vectors etc. is that blobs don't have internal structure. They are "measured" in bytes for the purposes of asking their length and copying bits of them, but that doesn't mean that what those bytes are is defined. We could add a byte type if we wanted, but to call them u8s or s8s or characters is a misleading assumption; they might be fragments of floats or something... > Andy ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
