On 3/17/23 10:09 AM, John Cowan wrote:
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>     So (at least some) storage classes should have a way of loading and
>     storing the representation of the data directly, instead of using the
>     Scheme object as an intermediary.
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> That's what data->body is for, correct?

Yes, that works when manipulating a complete "vector-like object".

My point is that, sometimes we need to extract and store the
representation of an individual element of the array, not just extract
and store the object corresponding to that representation.

Brad