Re: bytevector docs -> compound data types?

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hello,

Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> Currently the bytevector docs are in the "Simple data types" section.
> Would they not be a better fit in "Compound data types", along with
> uniform vectors &c?

See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2009-05/msg00077.html .

An argument in favor of the current layout is this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
* Strings::                     Sequences of characters.
* Bytevectors::                 Sequences of bytes.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The rationale was that some Guile programs have come to use strings to
store binary data, and we want to insist on the difference between
characters and bytes.

OTOH it obviously makes sense to have them close to uniform vectors, so
either way is fine with me.

Thanks,
Ludo'.