Sorry. I realize that Shiro already posed the same question. While string-pad is precedent, I wonder if "pad" is the right name for a procedure that may truncate a bitvector. "Padding" suggests to me that the result will always be at least as long as the input. Unless the name is changed, I lean toward returning the input vector or making it an error if *length* is less than input length.
-- Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe <[email protected]>
