[m-dev.] io__write and arrays

[Fergus Henderson]

I wrote:

> Uh, actually you do have to specify the type.

Sorry, that was a bit of a false alarm.  That applies only if you don't
know the type at the time you are reading the data in, e.g. if you are
reading in a value of type `univ'.  In the normal case, the type for a
call to io__read can be determined from the code at compile time and
the data need not be be type-qualified.

So in the normal case, you could just write

 	[1,2,3]

whether this has type `list(int)' or `lazy_list(int)' will be
determined by the type in the call to io__read.
Similarly, for array in the normal case you don't need any type or module
qualifiers, and so you could write just

	array([1,2,3])

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