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. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org Samuel Johnson on playing the violin: "Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible." _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
