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hope that it may spark up a little discussion. I added experimentally a VECTOR-INSERT! and a VECTOR-DELETE!, but I currently do not like their design.On the matter of VECTOR-INSERT!, I'm specifically considering something like VECTOR-INSERT-{LEFT,RIGHT}!, though they would be confusing, given the differing meanings of *-INSERT-{LEFT,RIGHT}! of SRFI 44. Also, it would be
rather ambiguous what each one did: would VECTOR-INSERT-LEFT! insert something on the left of the vector and then rotate stuff right, or vice versa? VECTOR-DELETE! I also don't like, partially because it, too, shifts right, like VECTOR-INSERT!. A better design might be VECTOR-DELETE-{LEFT,RIGHT}! (though I'd still like a better name), wherethe former would remove a value and shift some of the vector left and the
latter would shift some of the vector right. An orthogonal idea might be to be able to {insert,delete} stuff from one vector into another, like with VECTOR-COPY!, but rotate elements as well. A further orthogonal idea might be to have more general versions of VECTOR-{INSERT,DELETE}!, letting you write VECTOR-{INSERT,DELETE}-{LEFT,RIGHT}! trivially, and also any variation thereof. What are your thoughts about these?