> What is a #y vector? Does anyone know? From the 1.3.2 changelog
1998-10-18 Mikael Djurfeldt <m...@barbara.nada.kth.se> * unif.c (scm_raprin1): Changed print syntax for byte vectors from #bytes(...) to #y(...), and syntax for short vectors from #short(...) to #h(...). This may seem nutty, but, like the other uniform vectors, byte vectors and short vectors want to have the same print and read syntax (and, more basic, want to have read syntax!). Changing the read syntax to use multiple characters after the hash sign breaks with the conventions used in R5RS and the conventions used for the other uniform vectors. It also introduces complexity in the current reader, both on the C and Scheme levels. (The Right solution is probably to change the syntax and prototypes for uniform vectors entirely.) - Mike
