Re: [Scheme-reports] 6.3.7 blobs

[Andy Wingo <wingo@x>]

On Fri 20 May 2011 04:58, "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@x> writes:

> On Thu, 19 May 2011 13:05:25 -0400, Andy Wingo <wingo@x> wrote:
>
>> What would you call a sub-blob which shares state with another blob?
>> "subblob" is very blub, but the analogy to strings is quite strong, and
>> perhaps indeed blob-copy should be subblob.  But oh, the voiced labial
>> plosives!
>
> I am still in strong favor of changing this name to bytevector instead of  
> blob.

FWIW, I am mildly in favor, though the concision of "blob-length" over
"bytevector-length" is a point in blob's favor.

Andy
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