Mercurial > emacs
changeset 35111:b1adf7e27ea8
Minor fix because a bool-vector's elements can't be characters.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Sun, 07 Jan 2001 01:54:41 +0000 |
| parents | a8e4c70c77c2 |
| children | dfb7567dbcfd |
| files | lispref/objects.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/objects.texi Sat Jan 06 21:46:48 2001 +0000 +++ b/lispref/objects.texi Sun Jan 07 01:54:41 2001 +0000 @@ -545,11 +545,11 @@ Arrays are further subdivided into strings, vectors, char-tables and bool-vectors. Vectors can hold elements of any type, but string elements must be characters, and bool-vector elements must be @code{t} -or @code{nil}. The characters in a string can have text properties like -characters in a buffer (@pxref{Text Properties}); vectors and -bool-vectors do not support text properties even when their elements -happen to be characters. Char-tables are like vectors except that they -are indexed by any valid character code. +or @code{nil}. Char-tables are like vectors except that they are +indexed by any valid character code. The characters in a string can +have text properties like characters in a buffer (@pxref{Text +Properties}), but vectors do not support text properties, even when +their elements happen to be characters. Lists, strings and the other array types are different, but they have important similarities. For example, all have a length @var{l}, and all