Re: Extending the #u8(...) notation

2023-06-06 Thread John Cowan
On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 10:39 AM wrote: Basically, it just means to allow strings and character literals as > elements of byte vectors written as "#u8(...)". > Any strings and characters, or just ASCII ones? \This is incompatible to SRFI-4 but similar to SRFI-207. > Any particular reason not

Re: [PATCH] Add user-facing weak pair API

2023-06-06 Thread felix . winkelmann
> On Sat, Jun 03, 2023 at 11:12:40PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote: > > Dear hackers, > > > > At the Village CHICKENs event, I gave a presentation about how we could > > add "proper" support for weak pairs, so that they can be exposed to the > > user. Right now we have half-baked support for weak pairs

Extending the #u8(...) notation

2023-06-06 Thread felix . winkelmann
Hi! Kristian Lein-Mathisen suggested an extension to the bytevector syntax for SRFI-4 and R7RS bytevectors (which becomes more relevant in the forthcoming UTF-aware CHICKEN) which seems quite practical. I'd be eager to know how useful other users consider this feature before I submit a patch.