Re: Arrays vs. Lists

[Michael Lazzaro]

On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 02:07  PM, Uri Guttman wrote:

the whole notion is that lists are always temporary and arrays can be as
permanent as you want (an array ref going quickly out of scope is very
temporary). lists can't live beyond the current expression but arrays can.

Along those lines, the closest I've been able to come so far to a usable two-sentence definition is:

-- A list is an ordered set of scalar values.
-- An array is an object that stores a list.

But I'm not sure that holds water.

MikeL