On 7/13/15 7:38 PM, Tofu Ninja wrote:
On Monday, 13 July 2015 at 23:01:35 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
Popular != the right thing.
List in CS at large is generally speaking not indexable nor defines
such operations. So there may be a lot of people who don't care for
what a list is, but that doesn't make list a synonym for sequence.
Who decreed lists can not be indexable, seriously this seems really odd
to me.
It's just a matter of language ethos. Perl calls all arrays "lists", and
if a new array-like feature comes about it that language, it would make
sense to continue using that terminology. In D indexable and sliceable
arrays are called "arrays" or "slices". That's a given. So adding
something that is indexable and sliceable but is called a "list" is
surprising. -- Andrei
