[r6rs-discuss] vectors of unsigned octets

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:26:47 +0200

r6rsguy at free-comp-shop.com writes:

> Nobody seemed to like that suggestion. I don't see how
> a Scheme programmer could like #vu8, it seems to me that
> it is the kind of mnemonic that an assembly language
> programmer would invent.

Right, but I think you're not supposed to use the read syntax a lot in
programs. You'd rather use the available procedures to create a
bytevector, especially since the main use of bytevectors is I/O.

Thanks,
Ludovic.
Received on Fri Jun 22 2007 - 11:26:47 UTC