Re: Bytestructures: a "type system" for bytevectors

[Andy Wingo]

On Sun 30 Aug 2015 18:32, address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") 
writes:

> https://github.com/taylanub/scheme-bytestructures
>
> (I don't endorse GitHub, but I gave in after Gitorious went down.)
>
> I had started working on this project around two years ago but it had a
> pretty strange and complex API, an unreadable README, high overhead for
> something you might want to use in high-performance settings (byte
> crunching), and a bit too hung up on being standards compliant.
>
> I resumed working on it around a week ago, and solved all these issues!
>
> (I still do my best to keep R7RS compliance, but Guile is my prime
> *real* target.)
>
> So what is it?
>
> === Structured access to bytevector contents ===

I really want something like this BTW :) I was thinking that we can do
this on a proper low level, applying type tags to bytevectors.  I want
something like http://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html for Guile, and data access
is part of it.

Andy