Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg

[Kon Lovett]

On Mar 18, 2008, at 7:01 AM, John Cowan wrote:

> Graham Fawcett scripsit:
>
> > So, a byte string would simply be a string with a null auxilliary  
> > vector.
>
> That doesn't work.  A byte-string is not a sequence of characters from
> the ASCII repertoire, it's a sequence of characters from the  
> repertoire
> {ASCII set, characters numbered 129 through 255 with uncertain  
> semantics}.
> Well, except on EBCDIC machines, where the repertoire is that of some
> unspecified EBCDIC code page.

In my usage "byte-string" means "octet-string". See the "levenshtein"  
egg. I mean a "blob".

> --
> John Cowan        http://ccil.org/~cowan   address@hidden
> Lope de Vega: "It wonders me I can speak at all.  Some caitiff  
> rogue did
> rudely yerk me on the knob, wherefrom my wits still wander."
> An Englishman: "Ay, a filchman to the nab betimes 'll leave a man
> crank for a spell." --Harry Turtledove, Ruled Britannia

Best Wishes,
Kon