Re: What is the point of bytevectors?

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 3:51 AM divoplade <d@divoplade.fr> wrote:


> From the scheme side, however:
> 1. The bytevector library needs to be imported;
>

If a single line is a serious overhead, then your program is tiny and you
can do whatever you want: it will be obvious to whoever maintains the
program next (including you).


> 2. The function names have way more characters to type;
>

Use an autocompleting editor such as Emacs.


> 3. The bytevector library is missing a lot of text functions (like
> join, split, trim, pad, searching...).
>

That is indeed an issue.  Fortunately SRFI 207, though not yet final, comes
to your rescue. You can't get the spiffy syntax described at <
https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-207/srfi-207.html> unless you modify the
Guile reader, but the procedures documented there can be found at <
https://github.com/Zipheir/bytestrings>.



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