[r6rs-discuss] use of "bytes"

[Jeff Read]

On 11/20/06, Michael Sperber <sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:


> Note that "bytes objects" are agnostic as to what kind of values they
> contain.  "Octet" seemed foreign enough to enough people to make the
> editors choose "byte."  Moreover, the looseness in the notion of
> "bytes" is actually more appropriate for the agnostic nature of bytes objects.
>

All the more reason why "binary" is a much better name for those
things. Of course once ternary-logic computers become commonplace
we'll have to address that naming issue too... :)

--Jeff