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Re: [ELISP] How do you turn an array of chars into a string?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: [ELISP] How do you turn an array of chars into a string?
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:22:45 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>>> What if you want to convert an array-of-chars into a string?
>> A string *is* an array of chars.
[...]
> In any case, it doesn't exactly make sense to me to just say
> that "a string is an array of chars".

Then I guess a better way to say it is:

a string is one of the various kinds of arrays supported by Elisp
(other types are vectors, char-tables, and bool-vectors).


        Stefan


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