On Sunday 31 July 2005 00:24, Thomas Fischbacher wrote:
> I originally was somewhat worried whether extensible arrays really would
> be such a dramatic improvement - what if the next person needs displaced
> arrays, or any other functionality from CL's arrays with their many bells,
> gongs, and whistles? But thinking a bit more about it, it seems as if
> virtually anything of interest could be accomplished by other means, with
> the exception of just extensible arrays.

Yes, I think the only advantage of extensible arrays is a slightly improvement 
in the constant prefactor in the complexity of some algorithms.

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