On 04/04/06 Gareth McCaughan said: > [of course I meant to type "push". Lisp's operator names > are obscure sometimes, but not that obscure]
Indeed. > I'd forgotten that Perl has a "push" with that behaviour. And, > come to think of it, Lisp has VECTOR-PUSH and VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND > that add onto the end of a vector. Inconsistent naming: Bad Lisp! > Bad! No biscuit! :) > Anyway, Python surely has more perlites than lispniks among > its newcomers. So: the dubious antiprecedent of Lisp's PUSH > is outweighed by the precedent of Perl's and somewhat invalidated > by Lisp's internal inconsistency. I retract everything :-). Well, I am one disillusioned Perl programmer who came to find Python the answer to my Perl complaints...almost. I'm just trying to fix the almost part now. > Oh, yes. The combination is ... peculiar. Yup. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein
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