[plt-scheme] Re: SRFI-4 and FFI

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Mon Sep 11 18:00:14 EDT 2006

On Sep 11, John Kozak wrote:
> 
> Sorry, wasn't clear enough.  I meant this behaviour (debian unstable
> standard build):
> 
>   armadillo:~$ mzscheme -q
>   Welcome to MzScheme version 352, Copyright (c) 2004-2006 PLT Scheme Inc.
>   > (require (lib "foreign.ss"))
>   > u8vector?
>   #<primitive:u8vector?>
> 
> Presumably u8vector? and friends should only be defined after
> requiring srfi-4?

I'm not following you -- what's the reason not to have them available
through foreign.ss too?  (They do have the slight speed advantage I
mentioned.)

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