Re: [Scheme-reports] Bytevectors should be called u8vectors

[John Cowan <cowan@x>]

Alex Shinn scripsit:

> To be clear, this is not just a naming convention, but an API
> philosophy.  In R7RS large we will _not_ be providing a SRFI-4 API,
> but instead be following the R6RS style (i.e. bytevector-u32-ref on
> the same underlying bytevector data type instead of a new u32vector
> data type).  The reasons for this were too many to summarize right now -
> I'll have to leave that to a rationale document.

I'm proposing providing both bytevector-u32-ref and u32vector-ref, both
of which apply to the bytevector type; the first takes a byte offset,
the second an element offset.

But nothing about the bytevector API in R7RS-large is settled except
that there will be one.

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