Re: [Chicken-hackers] blob-literal read syntax

[Alaric Snell-Pym]

On 10/18/10 15:31, John Cowan wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Alaric Snell-Pym
> <address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > In my cosy little world, blobs are just an ordered sequence of
> > addressible memory cells, with no particular interpretation of the
> > contents as numbers, characters, or smells, while SRFI-4 places definite
> > semantic models on the contents of a region of memory.
>
> Fair enough; but in that case, they shouldn't have any read-write syntax.

Why not? Sure, to read/write them we have to pick *some* kind of model
(an even-lengthed string of nibbles, in this case) but it's arbitrary;
it doesn't matter as long as it can represent all strings of bytes (the
eight-bit byte having become a de-facto standard, we can at least rely
on that), and it's the same at both ends.

ABS

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