From: dfsr@riseup.net (Diogo F. S. Ramos)
To: Daniel Llorens <daniel.llorens@bluewin.ch>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `bytevector-length' doesn't accept a shared array from a bytevector
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:51:11 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a89f5qe8.fsf@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877B3F28-97FF-4B82-86BD-F6860C768131@bluewin.ch> (Daniel Llorens's message of "Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:18:08 +0100")
> On 21 Feb 2017, at 14:21, Diogo F. S. Ramos <dfsr@riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> I want to take the length of a shared array, but `bytevector-length'
>> throws an error claiming the shared array isn't a bytevector, even
>> though it prints the error argument as one.
>>
>> I am using Guile 2.0.11, Debian Stable package 2.0.11+1-9.
>
> This is addressed in 2.1, by
> eb3d623da57e6d31a58d95f932345fb761f9b701. Your example will print
> #1vu8(0 0 ...) to signify that it's not a bytevector. You can use
> array-length here.
Thank you.
I didn't realize shared arrays are not bytevectors anymore and wrongly
assumed bytevector procedures could be applied to arrays, even tho array
procedures can be applied to bytevectors.
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2017-02-21 13:21 `bytevector-length' doesn't accept a shared array from a bytevector Diogo F. S. Ramos
2017-02-21 14:18 ` Daniel Llorens
2017-02-21 18:51 ` Diogo F. S. Ramos [this message]
2017-02-21 20:07 ` Daniel Llorens
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