CLHS: Type BASE-STRING

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Type BASE-STRING

Supertypes:

base-string, string, vector, array, sequence, t

Description:

The type base-string is equivalent to `(vector base-char)`. The base string representation is the most efficient string representation that can hold an arbitrary sequence of standard characters.

Compound Type Specifier Kind:

Abbreviating.

Compound Type Specifier Syntax:

base-string [size]

Compound Type Specifier Arguments:

size---a non-negative fixnum, or the symbol *.

Compound Type Specifier Description:

This is equivalent to the type `(vector base-char` size`)`; that is, the set of base strings of size size.

The following X3J13 cleanup issues, not part of the specification, apply to this section:

- ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT-IMPLICATIONS:ALL-FIXNUM
- JUN90-TRIVIAL-ISSUES:24
- CHARACTER-VS-CHAR:LESS-INCONSISTENT-SHORT
- CHARACTER-PROPOSAL:2-3-3

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