Thomas Bushnell, BSG <tb+usenet@becket.net> wrote:
+---------------
| George Caswell <sieg_haro@attbi.com> writes:
| >    Because other languages support resizable vectors, therefore you have a
| > sensible primitive with which to (pretty trivially) implement resizable
| > vectors.
| 
| Neither C, Fortan, nor Pascal support resizeable vectors.
+---------------

Their loss. But Common Lisp does, see <URL:http://www.xanalys.com/
software_tools/reference/HyperSpec/Body/15_aacaa.htm> "Fill Pointers"
for "adjustable arrays", and the links to MAKE-ARRAY and ADJUST-ARRAY.

CL also has "displaced-to" arrays, which are a convenient way to do
sharing of subsets of an array.


-Rob

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