Am Fr., 9. Okt. 2020 um 17:53 Uhr schrieb Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
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> Why do you think that "vectorlist" is self-contradictory? Java has ArrayList.
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> > Speaking with my editor hat off, I will say that I don't understand the problem with "flexvector."  It's a flexible version of Scheme's vector — as simple as that.  That doesn't seem difficult at all.  Whereas "vectorlist" sounds self-contradictory, and "buffer" has no history that I can discern being used for this purpose.
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> I cast doubt on that a SRFI 214 entity is a flexible version of a
> Scheme vector. It supports the API of a list and a deque (but has
> usually better random access timings). Just because something is
> implemented with vectors, doesn't make it into a vector.

Or, rather, implementable because an implementation using shallow
trees or tries is also reasonable.