[racket] numbers/bytes in r6rs

Whoops looks like I was wrong there. Please disregard.

Robby

On Sunday, December 26, 2010, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> In racket you'd use this function, fwiw:
>
>   (λ (n) (bytes-length (string->bytes/utf-8 (format "~s" n))))
>
> (or possibly a variant of it depending on the encoding you were using).
>
> Robby
>
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 2:52 AM, Wolfgang De Meuter <wdmeuter at vub.ac.be> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I'm struggling with chapter 2 of the R6RS libraries (relation between Scheme data objects and bytevectors). Does anyone know a clean&simple way for
>> - determining the number of bytes needed to push an arbitrary-sized number in a bytevector;  (log nbr 256) is not good enough :-)
>> - determining whether a floating point number is a double or a single.
>>
>> I guess that I must be lacking knowledge about some of the primitives.
>>
>> Thx
>>
>> Wolf
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