On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:11:22PM -0800, David Brown wrote:
> I suggest you implement lists correctly, since if you don't you're going to
> also have a hard time understanding a lot of what happens in the SICP list
> manipulation stuff.  Python has tuples, and a 2-tuple is the same as a cons
> cell.

Adding an element to a Python list is simply calling the append method.
I just noticed that appending to a Scheme list means I have to walk
the cons tree since I don't know the length of it.


<whine>Picking out say the third element or deleting the 4th element
suddenly take a few extra brain cells where with Python lists they were
trivial. </whine>

Chris

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