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

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.