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

[Magnus Achim Deininger]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:49:36 +0200, Alex Queiroz <address@hidden>  
wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 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.
>
>      Why can't this model be a R6RS-style bytevector?

they kind of have the look and feel of vectors, while blobs and vectors  
are different things...

What about yEnc instead of a sequence of numbers? That would greatly  
reduce the encoded size of the blobs, too, at least compared to a list of  
decimal numbers or the hex encoding. It's really just roughly 1-2% bigger  
than the actual data content of the blob, compared to hex (2x the size) or  
decimal (2x-4x counting the space, depending on the byte).