> We did strongly consider incorporating bitwise operations > as in (srfi 33) / (rnrs arithmetic bitwise), and decided to > leave it to the large language. There was no question of it > being controversial or of limited use, it's simply one place > we decided to draw the line between large and small.
I'm sure you did consider those libraries. However, they specify bitwise operations on integers of somewhat uncertain range, which opens a can of worms. Operations on bytes (exact integers in the range 0 to 255) are much easier to specify and are all you need for many useful operations on byte vectors. That is my specific question: did you consider including bitwise operation on bytes only? Regards, Alan _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
