base-string, string, vector, array, sequence, t
The type base-string is equivalent to
(vector base-char)
.
The base string representation is the most efficient string representation that can hold an arbitrary sequence of standard characters.
Abbreviating.
(base-string
{[
size]
})
size—a non-negative fixnum, or the symbol *.
This is equivalent to the type (vector base-char size)
;
that is, the set of base strings of size size.