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Subject: Re: (aset UNIBYTE-STRING MULTIBYTE-CHAR)
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     > PS: I see bindat.el uses string-make-unibyte is a similar way to the
     >     place where we recently switched to unibyte-string, except that th
     >     source is an array rather than a list, and I was thinking: wouldn't
     >     it make sense to allow `apply' to take an array of args rather than
     >     a list of args?

    How Pythonic!

I see no harm in it.