From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: length Date: 1999/06/20 Message-ID: <3138883782875459@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 491776853 References: mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Josef Eschgfaeller | How fast is length for strings (or vectors)? LENGTH is a simple accessor for any subtype of ARRAY. | But for a normal string, does Lisp go through memory until a terminating | symbol is reached, or is there always a value associated to each string, | which gives the length? I suspect the first one is true. why? Common Lisp is designed, unlike C. do yourself a favor and stop thinking in C terms. and please note that very few languages other than C use strings that cannot hold all possible characters. #:Erik -- @1999-07-22T00:37:33Z -- pi billion seconds since the turn of the century