Alaric Snell-Pym scripsit: > In the core, however, it could be explained that an operation that > reads a bunch of bytes from a binary port returns a vector of bytes - > but that vector must not be modified, which would then free up > implementations to just return general vectors that happen to be full > of small exact integers, or to actually return a specialised srfi-4- > esque 8uvector;
I don't see that you need immutability for that, as long as the first kind of implementation makes blob-u8-ref a synonym for vector-ref (and ditto for set). -- "But I am the real Strider, fortunately," John Cowan he said, looking down at them with his face [email protected] softened by a sudden smile. "I am Aragorn son http://www.ccil.org/~cowan of Arathorn, and if by life or death I can save you, I will." --LotR Book I Chapter 10 _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
