On 2007-09-18, Kay Schluehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18 Sep., 10:13, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Lorenzo Stella a écrit : >> >> > Hi all, >> > I haven't experienced functional programming very much, but now I'm >> > trying to learn Haskell and I've learned that: 1) in functional >> > programming LISTS are fundmental; >> >> Not exactly. They are used quite a lot, yes, but that's also >> the case in other paradigms. What's important in functional >> programming is *functions*. > > Functional lists are not quite the same. They are actually > recursive datastructes. In Python you would model them as > nested tuples: > > t = (a, (b, (c, ...(d, None)))))
Tuples won't work for cyclic data, though. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
