Re: propose deprecation of generalized-vector-*

[Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>]

On Tue 22 Jan 2013 15:31, Daniel Llorens <daniel.llorens@bluewin.ch> writes:

> On Jan 21, 2013, at 17:11, Andy Wingo wrote:
>
> The patch attached applies over yours and is to document this function
> and a couple others in the manual.

Thanks, applied and pushed to wip-generalized-vectors.

> Maybe we should have scm_array_ref_1, scm_array_ref_2, etc. as it is
> done for some other functions taking rest lists. I can write a patch
> for that.

For C, that makes sense.  Something should be done for Scheme as well,
but it's not terribly urgent.  Perhaps make scm_array_ref not be bound
to "array-ref", and instead bind "array-ref" to some function that takes
two optional arguments and a rest argument.  A poor man's case-lambda...

> It makes sense to let vector- work on uniform vectors because the
> implementation should be identical.

FWIW this is not the case.  Vectors hold SCM objects, whereas uniform
vectors hold unpacked machine values.  It's possible to have a
one-dimensional slice of a uniform array also.

Now on to your next mail...

Andy
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