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author | Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de> | 2004-11-09 13:48:14 +0000 |
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committer | Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de> | 2004-11-09 13:48:14 +0000 |
commit | d233b123d08adf0826a82fb23558e6c534c7c6ef (patch) | |
tree | d6ab46bdcc5d8e1fbf4ff890b086551006125dfb | |
parent | 714682a35390ddd085ec87de8f58eaf72987d5a3 (diff) | |
download | guile-d233b123d08adf0826a82fb23558e6c534c7c6ef.tar.gz |
More stuff about arrays and vectors.
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@@ -171,8 +171,16 @@ variable %load-path. It now complies with SRFI-4 and the weird prototype based uniform array creation has been deprecated. See the manual for more details. -A non-compatible change is that characters can no longer be stored -into byte arrays. +Some non-compatible changes have been made: + - characters can no longer be stored into byte arrays. + - strings and bit vectors are no longer considered to be uniform vectors. + +There is the new notion of 'generalized vectors' and corresponding +procedures like 'generalized-vector-ref'. Generalized vectors include +strings bitvectors, ordinary vectors, and uniform numeric vectors. + +Arrays use generalized vectors their storage, so that you still have +arrays of characters, bits, etc. ** There is now support for copy-on-write substrings, mutation-sharing substrings and read-only strings. |