From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: bytevector docs -> compound data types? Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:40:18 +0200 Message-ID: References: <86zlbxb6jb.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245964123 13417 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2009 21:08:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:08:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 25 23:08:36 2009 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 1MJwBQ-0005ih-Cd for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:08:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52280 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJwBP-0003P7-Fr for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:08:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJwBJ-0003Oi-Jd for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:08:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJwBF-0003OL-V7 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:08:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58612 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJwBF-0003OI-PT for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:08:25 -0400 Original-Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:65501 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MJwBA-00031y-JI; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:08:20 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACEED22B13; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:08:16 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from unquote (unknown [83.44.189.188]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0C9A122B11; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:08:14 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <86zlbxb6jb.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s=22'?= =?utf-8?Q?s?= message of "Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:39:36 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 4D5ED174-61CC-11DE-A898-DC021A496417-02397024!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:8766 Archived-At: Hi, On Thu 25 Jun 2009 00:39, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: > Andy Wingo 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? > > An argument in favor of the current layout is this: > > * Strings:: Sequences of characters. > * Bytevectors:: Sequences of bytes. This might also be an argument for moving strings to "compound data types"... Perhaps we should move both, so that the "Generalized vector" section has all kinds of vectors nearby? Another option of course is to not classify data types by "simple" or "compound", but some division is necessary. Perhaps our master wordsmith Baron von Jerram has a perspective :) Andy --=20 http://wingolog.org/