[R6RS] comments on proposed bytes SRFI

William D Clinger will at ccs.neu.edu
Fri Jun 16 14:18:00 EDT 2006


Concerning bytes->u8-list and u8-list->bytes,
Mike wrote:
> ...I expected those two to be the most common case by
> two.  I can't say I have a strong opinion, either on complementing
> them with s8 operations, or flushing them.  Do you?

I agree that the u8 interpretation of bytes will be the
most common, for much the same reason that div+mod will
be more common than div0+mod0.

Will



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