nyef wrote:
The programming language Common Lisp has "signed-byte" and "unsigned-byte" types which can be parameterized by the number of bits involved, and has a "byte" function for specifying a consecutive run of bits within a larger integer for various shift/mask operations, and it inherits this from previous incarnations of Lisp. A "byte" is not always a machine-specific type, and not always a constant size, let alone always eight bits.
If you’ve read my intro post - there’s a reason I’m anomie-p in places anomie was already taken (although I intentionally mangled the idiom a bit, it’d be anomiep if strictly followed, but having the - just looks better to me)