[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] "Byte-vector" would be a better name than "bytes" for a data type.

[John Cowan]

Eli Barzilay scripsit:

> * so `byte-string' is a better name, but then `character-' is implicit
>   in one but not the other.  Similar asymmetry to `length' vs
>   `vector-length'.

This seems to be an argument in favor of "byte-string" rather than against it.

> * so `bytes' is a good compromise.  (I use "byte strings" in text
>   instead of "byteses".)

The fact that you do so is the best evidence that using "bytes" for a
singular object is a bad idea.  Scheme programs *are* text -- highly
conventionalized, but text.

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