Re: I wonder if I'm missing something...
"David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com)" <[email protected]>
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> Also when creating a displaced array it should allow casting to a different type. > +1 > On Nov 7, 2025, at 13:01, Yuri Davidovsky (as work at disclosure dot ie) <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 7 Nov 2025, at 20:21, Tim Bradshaw <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Here is a sketch (which I may have mentioned here previously) of how functionality could be added to CL which would enable fast I/O of, for instance, vectors of floats without destroying the language by allowing arbitrary type punning, and also dealing with things like ensuring things are written in defined byte orders. > > Interesting. I was thinking of something different. Essentially any byte stream could be read (and written to) arbitrary data types using primitives like: > > (read-byte stream) — as is now. > (read-byte stream :uint32) — will read an unsigned 32 bit int. > (read-byte stream :float) — you start to get the idea. > > You could do the same with read-sequence by supplying the type of data to read and an array of appropriate type. It should also support custom data types. > > Also when creating a displaced array it should allow casting to a different type. > > _______________________________________________ > Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users > [email protected] > http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html _______________________________________________ Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users [email protected] http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html