Whoops looks like I was wrong there. Please disregard. Robby
On Sunday, December 26, 2010, Robby Findler <[email protected]> wrote: > In racket you'd use this function, fwiw: > > (λ (n) (bytes-length (string->bytes/utf-8 (format "~s" n)))) > > (or possibly a variant of it depending on the encoding you were using). > > Robby > > On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 2:52 AM, Wolfgang De Meuter <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hello >> >> I'm struggling with chapter 2 of the R6RS libraries (relation between Scheme >> data objects and bytevectors). Does anyone know a clean&simple way for >> - determining the number of bytes needed to push an arbitrary-sized number >> in a bytevector; (log nbr 256) is not good enough :-) >> - determining whether a floating point number is a double or a single. >> >> I guess that I must be lacking knowledge about some of the primitives. >> >> Thx >> >> Wolf >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users >> > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
