Eli Barzilay scripsit:
> * so `byte-string' is a better name, but then `character-' is implicit
> in one but not the other. Similar asymmetry to `length' vs
> `vector-length'.
This seems to be an argument in favor of "byte-string" rather than against it.
> * so `bytes' is a good compromise. (I use "byte strings" in text
> instead of "byteses".)
The fact that you do so is the best evidence that using "bytes" for a
singular object is a bad idea. Scheme programs *are* text -- highly
conventionalized, but text.
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