Re: [Chicken-hackers] incorrect warning during compilation

[John Cowan]

Kristian Lein-Mathisen scripsit:

> And I guess string->blob/shared isn't all that useful if no other Schemes
> support it and we have plenty of other workarounds. I never really got
> blobs anyway, when do you *not* just want to use a string instead? They
> print so much nicer than blobs, even with binary data that's escaped with
> \x!

Strings have definite semantics as a sequence of characters, even if you
need to know the encoding.  Blobs have no semantics at all: they can be
logically strings, or SRFI 4 vectors, or arrays of C structs, or whatever.

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