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I am vehemently opposed to any sort of octothorpe reader syntax for arrays; I have a preference for SRFI 10. Indeed, SRFI 4's various new octothorpe reader macros caused much of the motivation behind SRFI 10. I instead propose that various SRFI 10 octothorpe-comma constructors be defined, perhaps as #,(array {vector,ac64,...} [rank]), or perhaps as #,({vector,ac64,...} [rank]); either way, I'd _much_ prefer SRFI 10 constructors to new #Afoo stuff. If this is intended to be the _basis_ for array manipulation, will there be a follow-up of a complete array library to deprecate SRFI 43 and some of 13? (I say 'some of' because there are still many useful string-specific routines in SRFI 13 that it would be nice to keep.) ARRAY=? is less general than it could be. I'd prefer an ARRAY= with the same sort of interface as LIST= from SRFI 1 and VECTOR= from SRFI 43, respectively.