Re: byte-to-string

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> What's the purpose of the new byte-to-string function?  I'm trying to
> document it, but the docstring is uninformative about what it can be
> used for.

IIUC it's the equivalent of unibyte-string (i.e. it interprets its
128-255 arguments as bytes rather than latin-1 chars).

> Also, if the integer argument is supposed to be a byte, shouldn't it be
> error to give it something larger than 255?

I think so, yes.


        Stefan