The SRFI, which is to supersede SRFI-47, "Array",
- synthesizes array concepts from Common-Lisp
and Alan Bawden's "array.scm";
- incorporates all the uniform vector types
from SFRI-4 "Homogeneous numeric vector
datatypes";
- adds a boolean uniform array type;
- adds 16.bit and 128.bit floating-point
uniform-array types;
- adds decimal floating-point uniform-array
types; and
- adds array types of (dual) floating-point
complex numbers.
Multi-dimensional arrays subsume homogeneous
vectors as the one-dimensional case, obviating the need for SRFI-4.
SRFI-58 gives a read/write invariant syntax for
the homogeneous and heterogeneous arrays described here.