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Re: Is there a way to convert a keyboard macro to a string?


From: tomas
Subject: Re: Is there a way to convert a keyboard macro to a string?
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 22:22:53 +0200
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On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 06:55:01PM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:

[...]

> While we have the Supreme Techno-Pope out of
> the paleo-Metabunker, let me ask him to explain
> the reason behind vectors.

Not the Pope here, by a long stretch, but the reason
is in the (Elisp) doc ("6 Sequences, Arrays, Vectors"):
a vector is constant access time for the nth element,
while on a list you need time proportional to the
number n (i.e. you have to "walk down" the list to
access its nth element (or rather, the little Lisp
gremlin has to do it for you).

OTOH, prepending an element to a list is quick & easy,
whereas for a vector, you have to copy the whole kaboodle
to get another vector.

Similar, yet different tools.

- -- t
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