Hi Alex et al, I've wondered about this question for a bit. Why should list be the fundamental data type? Should it not be a dictionary? Dictionary is essentially a function - mapping a domain to a range.
Is it that list could be built more easily with cons cell as the building block? Is it like list and dictionary are like the universal gates nand and nor - one is preferred because of the nature of the material being used? I use the universal gates example here because I was fascinated by the idea that I could represent a dictionary in a list (although less efficient) and a list in a dictionary (potentially improving the efficiency). Regards, Kashyap
