Scheme vs. CommonLisp vs. the World

Dwight Hughes dhughes@intellinet.com
Tue, 13 May 1997 21:13:48 -0500


| From: Gilbert Baumann <gilbert@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de>
| 
| "Chris Bitmead uid(x22068)" <Chris.Bitmead@alcatel.com.au> writes:
| > >Yet another BTW, I recall Scheme only has arrays of type "t".
| > >It doesn't have (unsigned byte 8) element arrays,
| > 
| > I believe byte arrays in Scheme are called strings.
| 
| I believe a string should contain characters and characters are no
| bytes.
| 
| Gilbert


Don't forget the string might be using Unicode also, so it might
not be in bytes.

-- Dwight