Re: [Chicken-hackers] blob-literal read syntax

[Alex Shinn]

John Cowan <address@hidden> writes:

> Magnus Achim Deininger scripsit:
>
>> <text> is mostly the blob contents verbatim, i.e. without converting it 
>> to hex first, except for some special characters.
>
> If we must have blob syntax at all, I agree that hex is The Right Thing,
> but allowing interspersed whitespace.

How about take a hint from Erlang and allow mixed hex and
ASCII strings?

  #vu8(010203"abcdef"0A0B0C)

with arbitrary interspersed whitespace (but not between the
two characters of a single hex value):

  #vu8(01 02 03 "abcdef" 0A 0B 0C)

-- 
Alex