Re: [Chicken-hackers] blob-literal read syntax

[Alaric Snell-Pym]

On 10/18/10 13:45, John Cowan wrote:
> Christian Kellermann scripsit:
>
> > Hm does this gain much? The default would be #{..} and if I need
> > #evilbits{...} I could still do so couldn't I?  #blob{...} or
> > anything else just adds characters to the default imho. Unless #{
> > ... } is already in use for something else, I am all for it.
>
> R6RS uses #vu8(...), where #v = vector (presumably) and u8 = unsigned
> byte.  This would be extensible to #vs8, #vu16, etc. for SRFI-4 arrays.

Aye, but blobs and SRFI-4 vectors are different things.

In my cosy little world, blobs are just an ordered sequence of
addressible memory cells, with no particular interpretation of the
contents as numbers, characters, or smells, while SRFI-4 places definite
semantic models on the contents of a region of memory.

So I see a desire to separate the concepts!

ABS

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