On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Aubrey Jaffer <[email protected]> wrote: > | From: Wolfgang De Meuter <[email protected]> > | Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:06:41 +0200 > | > | ... > | to me, byte vectors are pretty useless if you don't have a minimal > | amount of comfort for encoding/decoding data types. And, given the > | fact that you no longer support this comfort, is there sufficient > | support to break down/ build up Scheme data types (integers, > | float,…) into / from raw bytes ? I.e., can I convert an integer or > | a float to a byte vector? > > SLIB provides R4RS/R5RS Scheme code to accomplish these conversions in > a way which is unaffected by host byte-order. See: > <http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/slib/Byte_002fNumber-Conversions.html#Byte_002fNumber-Conversions>
Note this is not truly portable in R4/R5 - you do need read-u8 and write-u8 provided by R6/R7. -- Alex _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
