Re: deref-array types

Or is this a problem with def-array-pointer?

It's somewhat reassuring that this wasn't entirely just a case of me 
misreading the docs :-)

On Feb 7, 2005, at 1:25 PM, Kevin Rosenberg wrote:

> Cyrus Harmon wrote:
>> Indeed, it does. So it looks like '(:array :int) and :int both work 
>> (on
>> OpenMCL) but '(* :int) fails.
>
> Yes, '(:array :int) is correct. Plain :int will definitely fail on
> Allegro.
>
>> So the test works, but there's still a problem WRT the docs, which is
>> that the def-array-pointer syntax doesn't work:
>
> Grr, that's a problem with documentation isn't it. The docs were
> written before openmcl support was added. Seems like openmcl can't
> handle that.
>
>> works. I'm still not clear on the difference between * and :array
>> though...
>
> For deref-array, always use '(:array <type>).  The docs will need to
> be updated.
>
> -- 
> Kevin Rosenberg
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