[r6rs-discuss] use of "bytes"

From: Jeff Read <bitwize>
Date: Mon Nov 20 13:50:39 2006

On 11/20/06, Michael Sperber <sperber_at_informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:


> Note that "bytes objects" are agnostic as to what kind of values they
> contain. "Octet" seemed foreign enough to enough people to make the
> editors choose "byte." Moreover, the looseness in the notion of
> "bytes" is actually more appropriate for the agnostic nature of bytes objects.
>

All the more reason why "binary" is a much better name for those
things. Of course once ternary-logic computers become commonplace
we'll have to address that naming issue too... :)

--Jeff
Received on Mon Nov 20 2006 - 13:50:12 UTC