On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Steve Howell <showel...@yahoo.com> wrote: > --- On Thu, 1/28/10, Josiah Carlson <josiah.carl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> [...] in the decade+ that I've been using >> Python and >> needed an ordered sequence; lists were the right solution >> 99% of the >> time [...] > > What do you think of LISP, and "car" in particular (apart from the stupidly > cryptic name)?
Apples and oranges. Lisp lists are really stacks, and are analogous in Python to... lisp_list = (item1, (item2, (item3, (item4, ())))) lisp_car, lisp_cdr = lisp_list In many typical uses of lisp lists, car/cdr are used as a replacement for the equivalent of iteration in other languages. - Josiah _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
