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Submitter's name: Marc Feeley

Submitter's email: feeley at iro.umontreal.ca

Relevant draft: r7rs draft 6

Type: defect

Priority: minor

Relevant section of draft: 6.9. Bytevectors

Summary: Bytevectors should be called u8vectors

Many implementations of Scheme have adopted SRFI-4 where bytevectors are called u8vectors, and where the procedures operating on bytevectors have `u8vector` in their name.

I see no reason to introduce new names.  It will require many implementations to implement the new names, and moreover the SRFI-4 names will have to be kept for code which uses SRFI-4.  This is needless bloat.

The name `u8vector` is a very mnemonic way of expressing verbally the external representation `#u8(...)` which is used by R7RS for bytevectors.

I also find the names `bytevector-u8-ref` and `bytevector-u8-set!` very clumsy and verbose compared to `u8vector-ref` and `u8vector-set!`.

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Formal Comment: Bytevectors should be called u8vectors

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We voted for `bytevector` explicitly, and no new arguments have been given here.  It would be inconsistent to use `u8vector-ref` given `bytevector`; the reason not to use simple `bytevector-ref` is for upward compatibility with [wiki:BlobAPI BlobAPI] or whatever replaces it.

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