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.
>
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