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

From: Michael Sperber <sperber>
Date: Mon Nov 20 04:37:36 2006

Abdulaziz Ghuloum <aghuloum_at_cs.indiana.edu> writes:

> On Nov 16, 2006, at 9:30 PM, David T. Pierson wrote:
>
>> Another idea:
>>
>> blob
>>
>> This name actually has precedents, at least in database systems.
>
> blob == binary large object.
>
> But our objects may not be large at all.

Neither do blob objects in database systems. But they *can* be. So
can ours.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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