>>3
1.
https://groups.google.com/group/scheme-reports-wg2/browse_thread/thread/7ac79e8f0a1511a0
2. No, breaking perfectly fine old code for negligable benefit is retarded.
3. Yes, but keep it the fuck away from the WG1 diamond.
>>2,3
The difference between a blob and an u8vector is that a blob is just some memory, that we happen to access 8 bits at a time by default for practical reasons. You could access it 80 bits at a time and it would make sense too, but accessing an u8vector 10 items at a time makes no sense.
Chicken has blobs that can't even be accessed without using a SRFI 4 conversion, but putting SRFI 4 in WG1 would be overkill.
http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Unit%20library#blobs
http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Unit%20srfi-4