[alexandria-devel] Re: length=1

[Nikodemus Siivola]

On 3/1/08, Attila Lendvai <attila.lendvai at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  Exporting LENGTH=1 and LENGTH=2 may be debateable, the only use case is
>  >  the one Andreas Fuchs mentioned, i.e. as arguments to FIND-IF &c.
>
>
> i've got this recorded and ready to be pushed. unless soemone has
>  additional comments, i'll push it eventually.

Looks good to me.

Only one comment re the ETYPECASES: I don't think it makes much sense
to have a separate dispatch for SIMPLE-VECTOR cases when all we do is
call LENGTH. Most implementations are going to emit identical code for
(length (the vector x)) and
(lenght (the simple-vector) x).

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus