Hello, > Then it turned out that the string functions would now clear the > high order bit on strings, so they are no longer byte arrays and > there is no replacement but to roll my own. I stopped supporting > byte arrays. A noticable nuisance.
This is just a side note to the main discussion, but there is now a 'bytevector' datatype you can use. Does that work for you? If not, what functionality is missing? Thanks, Noah
