This may be true, but does any Scheme literature (the RnRS documents,
etc.) describe vectors this way? Although it's not mathematically
accurate terminology, there is significant precedent for using "vector"
to mean "dynamic array". Whereas I haven't encountered the term "buffer"
being used this way in any language.

On 10/8/20 1:32 PM, Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen wrote:
> Am Do., 8. Okt. 2020 um 11:40 Uhr schrieb Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
> <xxxxxx@nieper-wisskirchen.de>:
>
>> ... (Especially when we think of where the term "vector"
>> originally comes from.) ...
> To spell it out: A Scheme vector is a vector of coordinates in some
> generalized coordinate system (think of Lagrangian mechanics in case
> you wonder why the coordinate domain does not have to be homogeneous
> across the vector). One can equally say that a Scheme vector models a
> record with indexed, but otherwise unnamed fields.
>
> It is unfortunate that C++ misuses the vector terminology.
>