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Sebastian Egner <sebastian.egner@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Nice thing! > > It is a controversial thing, but it is also important: > > Why is the smallest addressable unit in a blob an octet and not a bit? Because they're the most common and useful way of dealing with binary data in my world. A bit blob (or a set of bit blob operations on octet blobs) seem like a good idea, but seems like a subject for a separate SRFI. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla