[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] "Byte-vector" would be a better name than "bytes" for a data type.

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From: Arthur A. Gleckler <arthur>
Date: Wed Nov 15 11:30:34 2006

On Nov 15, 2006, at 2:09 AM, Jeff Read wrote:

> Since the most prevalent Scheme coding style tends to favor long,
> descriptive identifiers over terse but vague and possibly ambiguous
> (to humans) identifiers, the use of the term "byte vector" is in
> keeping with this style. If terseness is to be preferred, terms like
> "binary" and even "u8vector" are preferable by far to "bytes".

Yes, I would much prefer any of those terms over "bytes."
Received on Wed Nov 15 2006 - 11:30:11 UTC

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