Re: byte type

Right again. I've fixed the missing ".". I've updapted :byte
to be signed and aded :unsigned-byte type.  I've updated the
documentation.

Thanks for the report!

--
Kevin Rosenberg
kevin-HJRc7zDS/[email protected]


On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 01:17:44AM -0400, John DeSoi wrote:
> Another question. I was looking at the +type-conversion-list+ for byte.
> 
> CMU: (:byte . (alien:unsigned 8))
> Allegro: (:byte . :byte)
> Lispworks: (:byte :byte) -- looks like this is missing the "."
> 
> 
> My concern is that you'll end up with different results because :byte 
> in LispWorks is signed (signed char) whereas the CMU specification 
> appears to be unsigned. I don't know about Allegro. In MCL, the :byte 
> type is unsigned.  Maybe both :byte and :unsigned-byte should be 
> included? Or LispWorks needs to map to '(:unsigned :byte) if :byte is 
> meant to be implicitly unsigned.
> 
> Best,
> 
> John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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