"Byte arrays are fixed-size mutable sequences (" { $link "sequence-protocol" } ") whose elements are integers in the range 0-255, inclusive. Each element only uses one byte of storage, hence the name. The literal syntax is covered in " { $link "syntax-byte-arrays" } "."
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"Byte array words are in the " { $vocab-link "byte-arrays" } " vocabulary."
"Byte arrays play a special role in the C library interface; they can be used to pass binary data back and forth between Factor and C. See " { $link "c-pointers" } "."
{ $description "The class of byte arrays. See " { $link "syntax-byte-arrays" } " for syntax and " { $link "byte-arrays" } " for general information." } ;
{ $description "Creates a new byte-array of n elements. The contents of the existing byte-array are copied into the new byte-array; if the new byte-array is shorter, only an initial segment is copied, and if the new byte-array is longer the remaining space is filled in with 0." } ;