Re: [EXT] [PATCH] Add 'bytevector-slice'.

[lloda]

> On 12 Jan 2023, at 23:27, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> lloda <lloda@sarc.name> skribis:
> 
>>> On 11 Jan 2023, at 18:37, Thompson, David <dthompson2@worcester.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 12:34 PM Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> What could be convenient though is ‘bytevector-copy’ (no bang), which
>>>> would combine ‘make-bytevector’ + ‘bytevector-copy!’.
>>> 
>>> 'bytevector-copy' already exists, or do you mean some different
>>> implementation of it?
>>> 
>>> - Dave
>> 
>> The current bytevector-copy takes a single argument.
> 
> Right, what I had in mind is one that would take an offset and size; I
> hadn’t realized the name was already taken.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

Actually (scheme base) from r7rs already defines (bytevector-copy bytevector 
start end), this is of course r7rs's convention. This is hidden in Guile's 
manual, which only lists the 1-argument version from r6rs.