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Subject: Re: Function vectors:  +funvec-20030516-0-c.patch
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    Hmmm, I was mostly just following the example of the `vector' type.  It does
    seem marginally useful to be able to create a vector-like type without
    explicitly specifying all the elements at creation-time, but perhaps for a
    special purpose type like funvecs it's not worth the extra overhead.

It is common to want a vector of variable size without specifying
a list of arguments, but I doubt that is useful for funvecs.