base-string (original) (raw)

ANSI Common Lisp 16 Strings 16.2 Dictionary of Strings

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.

Allegro CL Implementation Details:

None.