Dan Sugalski writes: : At 5:17 PM +0000 2/8/02, Simon Cozens wrote: : >Dan Sugalski: : >> Can't. Needs to be a linked list. Otherwise we can't nest data structures : >> well. : > : >Thanks; I knew there had to be a reason, couldn't remember what it was. : : Now all we need to do is figure out whether keys at the lowest levels : will deal with slices and ranges, or whether we should emit chunks of : bytecode to explicitly iterate through things.
The object at the bottom has to be able to process slices and ranges in case it wants to return a lazy list of its own. You can't just iterate it on behalf of the object. Larry
