Subject: Re: length From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1999/06/20 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3138883782875459@naggum.no> * Josef Eschgfaeller <esg@felix.unife.it> | How fast is length for strings (or vectors)? LENGTH is a simple accessor for any subtype of ARRAY. | But for a normal string, does Lisp go through memory until a terminating | symbol is reached, or is there always a value associated to each string, | which gives the length? I suspect the first one is true. why? Common Lisp is designed, unlike C. do yourself a favor and stop thinking in C terms. and please note that very few languages other than C use strings that cannot hold all possible characters. #:Erik -- @1999-07-22T00:37:33Z -- pi billion seconds since the turn of the century