Sean R. Bright wrote:
>
> > "car" and "cdr". These TLAs has absolutely no meaning in C++,
> > not to mention
> > the fact that they are *completely wrong* to use in a "pair".
>
> I beg to differ. A cons in Lisp is effectively a linked list node
What's all this talk about lisp? When did we start to program AbiWord in
Lisp? When did a C++ "pair" become a linked list participant only? Did I
just wake up in another universe?
I don't give a crap about how it's done in Lisp. We're not using Lisp, we're
using C++. I don't care if a car in Lisp is a T-Ford or a list element
pointer. We're not using Lisp, we're using C++. A list cudder might point to
the moon, I don't give a fsck. We're not using Lisp, we're using C++. So
long as we're using C++ we should follow C++ conventions. Is that really so
hard to understand???
A C++ std::pair is a generic datatype able to hold two objects. By the name
UT_Pair it's obvious that this is to be our template-less XP version of a
C++ std::pair. To assume that the first object is a pointer to a list
element is so way off the wall that it took me until now to understand that
it apparently is futile to even begin to try to explain what's wrong with
this assumption.
/Mike - please don't cc
