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Re: Names and primitives in SRFI 56

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Subject: Re: Names and primitives in SRFI 56
From: Dale Jordan <dalej@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:03:48 -0700
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A number of Schemes (Scheme48 and Chicken, at least) support
byte-vectors for doing aggregate binary io.  This seems to satisfy most
needs for doing something beyond simple scalar io, while still allowing
the application to perform whatever interpretation is necessary.

I suppose some might consider it onerous to require implementing such a
data type for this SRFI, but I consider byte-vectors extraordinarily useful.

Dale Jordan

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