Bradley, You said:
"I find it completely absurd to have an ordered data structure API which allows mutability but doesn’t formally allow and express adding elements in order." You explicitly said mutable. A clarification that there are no mutable data-structures on the beam seems an appropriate clarification. On Jun 18, 2016 8:01 PM, "Bradley O'Hearne" <[email protected]> wrote: > For my part, there has never been any confusion on that point from the > beginning, and that’s never been debated or questioned. The issue was the > logical abstraction represented by the operations *in the Elixir List API* > . > > B > > On Jun 18, 2016, at 10:51 AM, Robert Virding <[email protected]> wrote: > I just want to point out that there are no mutable data structures at all. > None. So it is not just lists which are immutable but everything else as > well. This means that if you are coming from an OO language you will find > working with data quite different. This is nothing really erlang/elixir > specific but is found in many functional languages. And that is not going > to change. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-talk/2217968F-EF17-4688-BCB9-9179E986E55B%40bighillsoftware.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-talk/2217968F-EF17-4688-BCB9-9179E986E55B%40bighillsoftware.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-talk/CA%2BV9ejEW1e3m5T2ESXNL95m5yRSJ7DXMO01T0ZoAqkxoJU2OEA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
