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Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
Just like srfi-25. If I understand correctly, CL transformation maps are much more restricted.
Yes, they only support a simple displacement, enough to implement sub-sequences (a la shared substring).
[Adjusting an array] If the existing data array is large enough for the new size, we should allow an implementation to re-use the existing data array, for efficiency;That might not be easy. The data under srfi-25 may be in quite different order in the array and in its backing vector.
Yes. It mainly is useful when adjusting (increasing or reducing) the "major" dimension - and msotly only for one-dimensions arrays.
Note an implication of this representation is that you don't want to use a general array for a shape. Instead' you'd want a shape to be a simple (but read-only) vector. So I strongly suggest that the specification be changed to make shape be a *one*-dimensional array - or better yet make it an unspecified opaque type. (In that case for Kawa I would use a simple Java primitive int array.)We could easily make shapes their own type, with accessors (shape-begin shp k) (shape-end shp k) for 0 <= k < (shape-length shp), say, or replace (array-shape arr) with (array-begin arr k) (array-end arr k) for 0 <= k < (array-rank arr), so shapes could still be arrays but a shape of an array would not be accessible, if that would really be useful in practice.
It might be useful to have both, where array-begin is a convenience function (and possible optimization) of shape+shape-begin.
But I'd like to keep arbitrary lower bounds, even if they most often are zeroes.
No objections. --Per Bothner