I am certain people coming from Python are confused by this, since I was bitten by this very difference when I had to write some Python for the first time in a while. (What do you mean append has side-effects?!?)
-Philip On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 10:30 AM Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 9:23 AM George Neuner <gneun...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > > On 2/2/2019 9:38 AM, Robby Findler wrote: > > > Lists seem like a common pitfall here, due to the overlap in > > > terminology but not functionality/performance. Maybe the right thing > > > is to add a library to data/<something> that is the python list data > > > structure and point to it from the list documentation? > > > > The problem is that a Python "list" isn't a list at all - it's an > > extensible vector of pointers. Perhaps the right thing is to educate > > Pythonistas that they really haven't been using lists. > > Although eduction is certainly a good goal(!), that seems like the > long path to the helpful result for us. :) > > Robby > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
