From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!195.54.122.107!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!news01.chello.se!news01.chello.no!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: newbie: problems with strings References: <3C6A57BA.30208@fsb.hr> <3222592823359991@naggum.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3222604287992073@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:51:25 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse@chello.no X-Trace: news01.chello.no 1013615485 212.186.234.171 (Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:51:25 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:51:25 MET X-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:51:39 MET (news01.chello.no) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:26434 * Dr. Edmund Weitz | No. I think you've overseen the OP's questions and expected another one | instead. Huh? He was talking about strings and vectors of characters, not about fill-pointers and displacement. So where did that come from? I am not a big fan of answering questions out of context. | The correct answer from the CLHS is that a simple-vector is "not | displaced to another array, has no fill pointer, and is not expressly | adjustable." The question whether a vector is a string or not is | orthogonal to it being simple or not as far as I understand it. Well, you did not ask the question. My goal is to help people undestand, not anal-retentively regurgitate the standard. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.