Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     However, I would argue that even in Emacs, string<->bytevector
>     conversions should be strict by default,
>
> What is a "bytevector"?  It doesn't appear in the Emacs Lisp
> ref manual, so I suppose it is a concept from Scheme.
> How would it relate into Emacs?  Maybe your suggestion is a good one.

Unibyte string minus the string part.  Basically what decoding works
from to generate strings and vice versa.

But in GUILE, you cannot use string functions on them: they are
basically arrays with byte elements.

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David Kastrup