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Re: octothorpe array syntax; other comments

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On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:43:57PM -0800, bear wrote:
> I think I agree that we shouldn't need new octothorpe constructs for
> arrays:  In fact, the vectors-of-vectors-of-vectors... syntax should
> work just fine for them .... should work fine for a 2-dimensional
> array. And if you think it really has to store type information and/or
> be disjoint from one-dimensional vectors, I'd agree with Mr. Campbell
> that #,((array-of <type-expr>) ...) or ... #,(array ...) is a better
> notation .... No need to mention rank and size; those are implicitly
> given by the structure.

Agreed on all points.
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Bradd W. Szonye
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