From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: scm_i_* in Snd Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:43:23 -0300 Message-ID: References: <87mym450zh.fsf@unknownlamer.org> <20080602104202.12874@Mirddin.farlep.net> <874p8cgo58.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: hanwen@xs4all.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212551090 29612 80.91.229.12 (4 Jun 2008 03:44:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 03:44:50 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 04 05:45:32 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K3jwK-0000HN-D9 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:45:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44005 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K3jvY-00077j-1m for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:44:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K3jvR-00077Q-LP for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:44:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K3jvP-000772-Ak for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:44:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51954 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K3jvP-00076z-4W for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:44:35 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:50661 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K3jvO-0002o6-PZ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:44:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K3jvL-0004KH-CH for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:44:31 +0000 Original-Received: from 201.80.72.52 ([201.80.72.52]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:44:31 +0000 Original-Received: from hanwen by 201.80.72.52 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:44:31 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 201.80.72.52 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) In-Reply-To: <874p8cgo58.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7303 Archived-At: Ludovic Courtès escreveu: >> That's great, but what if I need to get a "raw" string contents, >> that is a string of bytes as it is? > > "Raw string contents" is undefined, as Clinton said. I could be > whatever internal representation Guile chooses. Please explain what the canonical representation for a byte array is. Are we expected to do all our 8-bit data manipulations on uniform vectors or similar? -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen