From: MON KEY <monkey@sandpframing.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, schwab@linux-m68k.org, 6878@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6878: bool-vectors of length 0 signal error when aref/aset the 0th element
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:06:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimrZosDDyQjva5WGfNpCUuTb4WtyAZ5FOgFV=Nj@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimhQDy0SRC-Evp_XN1a3waCS5c+4kk+hx2z0gez@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 20:01, MON KEY <monkey@sandpframing.com> wrote:
>> My question was _specifcally_ w/re to bool-vectors
>> one _can not_ take the substring of a bool-vector.
>
> You're right, I misread.
>
NP.
So, safe to assume you haven't come up w/ a good reason to take the
0th elt of a bool-vector?
> But that's an argument, if at all, to make bool-vectors act like other
> vectors (which is to say, to make array/vector primitives to act on
> them like they do other vectors), not to make them more different.
>
No. You are wrong about this.
As they are currently implemented it doesn't make sense to operate
directly on the bool-vector
string content because the "string" is only an abstraction of the
data... There isn't actually a string there to operate upon - it is miasma.
More to the point you can't represent a byte as a string, and w/re bool-vectors
the print representation of the string returned is multibyte but represents a
unibyte char! Figuring out how to reliably DTRT w/re the different ways that
Emacs currently conflates multibyte strings with unibyte strings would only
further complicate the existing kluge that is `make-bool-vector'.
What would be _much_ better would be to change the read/print syntax for
`make-bool-vector' from:
(make-bool-vector 29 t)
;=> #&29"\377\377\377\x1f"
to:
(make-bool-vector 29 t)
;=> #&29[#b11111111 #b11111111 #b11111111 #b00011111]
; e.g. (/ 29 8) => 3
; (% 29 8) => 5
(make-bool-vector 0 t)
;=> #&0[]
(vconcat [#b11111111 #b11111111 #b11111111 #b00011111])
;=> [255 255 255 31]
(apply 'unibyte-string (append [#b11111111 #b11111111 #b11111111
#b00011111] nil))
;=> "\377\377\377\x1f"
Something like that is quite a bit more readable to my eyes (pun intended).
Though I doubt doing anything like this is very high up on anyones
list given the occurences
of `make-boole-vector' in ./lisp
> Juanma
>
--
/s_P\
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-20 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-18 4:19 bug#6878: bool-vectors of length 0 signal error when aref/aset the 0th element MON KEY
2010-08-18 7:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-19 1:51 ` MON KEY
2010-08-19 8:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-08-19 14:13 ` MON KEY
2010-08-19 15:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-19 17:06 ` MON KEY
2010-08-19 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-19 15:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-08-19 16:18 ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-19 17:09 ` MON KEY
2010-08-19 18:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-19 23:24 ` Chong Yidong
2010-08-20 2:01 ` MON KEY
2010-08-20 2:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-20 18:01 ` MON KEY
2010-08-20 19:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-20 23:06 ` MON KEY [this message]
2010-08-20 13:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-20 18:44 ` MON KEY
2010-08-21 12:40 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-08-21 15:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-08-21 17:02 ` MON KEY
2010-08-18 8:36 ` Andreas Schwab
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