Byte arrays - Factor Documentation (original) (raw)
Byte arrays are fixed-size mutable sequences (Sequence protocol) whose elements are integers in the range 0-255, inclusive. Each element only uses one byte of storage, hence the name. The literal syntax is covered in Byte array syntax.
Byte array words are in the byte-arrays vocabulary.
Byte arrays play a special role in the C library interface; they can be used to pass binary data back and forth between Factor and C. See Passing pointers to C functions.
Byte arrays form a class of objects.
There are several ways to construct byte arrays.
>byte-array ( seq -- byte-array )
( n -- byte-array ) 1byte-array ( x -- byte-array ) 2byte-array ( x y -- byte-array ) 3byte-array ( x y z -- byte-array ) 4byte-array ( w x y z -- byte-array )