On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 01:02:36PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> > Conceptually, a list is type-homogeneous,
>
> I don't agree here: see below.
>
> > If you map some function that accepts either ints or bools as arguments
> > over your list, then the list can be regarded as homogeneously having
> >
Jim Pryor scripsit:
> Lists are *a* basic functional programming structure.
Yes, of course. What I meant was, "As between lists and pairs, it is
lists that are the fundamental data structure." As you say, pairs are
just a special case of tuples which happen to be used to implement lists
in Lisp
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:25:02PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Yi DAI scripsit:
>
> > Why do we have both list and dotted-list, given that the former is just a
> > special case (terminated by nil) of the latter? Can we simply live with the
> > latter?
>
> Conceptually, lists are the basic function
Yi DAI scripsit:
> Why do we have both list and dotted-list, given that the former is just a
> special case (terminated by nil) of the latter? Can we simply live with the
> latter?
Conceptually, lists are the basic functional programming data structure:
sequential with O(n) access and shareable (
> Yi DAI writes:
> Hi, On a recent consideration of the design of Scheme, a question
> comes to my mind: Why do we have both list and dotted-list, given
> that the former is just a special case (terminated by nil) of the
> latter? Can we simply live with the latter? I see it is fairly eas
* Yi DAI [10 16:40]:
> Hi,
>
>
> On a recent consideration of the design of Scheme, a question comes to my
> mind:
>
> Why do we have both list and dotted-list, given that the former is just a
> special case (terminated by nil) of the latter? Can we simply live with the
> latter?
Well the
Hi,
On a recent consideration of the design of Scheme, a question comes to my
mind:
Why do we have both list and dotted-list, given that the former is just a
special case (terminated by nil) of the latter? Can we simply live with the
latter? I see it is fairly easy to write common list procedure
