Ilya Zakharevich on Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:22:37 -0800


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Re: Vec vs Vecsmall 

On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 12:57:41PM -0500, Michael Somos wrote:
> pari-dev,
> 
>     Karim wrote :
> 
> > But then we lose Vec("abc") --> ["a", "b", "c"].
> 
> Yes, exactly.
> 
> > Since there's no easy way to go from integer to character value
> 
> Actually, there is. Just index into a vector like  char[65] == "A"

Chicken and eggs.  How to *populate* such an array?  And what to do
with Unicode values?

Ilya