Re: [Python-Dev] Linked lists

2005-12-14 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 12/14/05, Martin Blais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello again. > > As I'm digging deeper into LISP and Scheme these days, I was > wondering, is there a good compelling reason why in Python we don't > have a native singly-linked and doubly-linked list types? > > That is, reasons other than > -

Re: [Python-Dev] Linked lists

2005-12-14 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Martin Blais wrote: > As I'm digging deeper into LISP and Scheme these days, I was > wondering, is there a good compelling reason why in Python we don't > have a native singly-linked and doubly-linked list types? As you seem to be asking for the historical reason: because nobody ever wanted it so

Re: [Python-Dev] Linked lists

2005-12-14 Thread Aahz
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005, Martin Blais wrote: > > As I'm digging deeper into LISP and Scheme these days, I was > wondering, is there a good compelling reason why in Python we don't > have a native singly-linked and doubly-linked list types? How about taking this dicussion to comp.lang.python and prov

[Python-Dev] Linked lists

2005-12-14 Thread Martin Blais
Hello again. As I'm digging deeper into LISP and Scheme these days, I was wondering, is there a good compelling reason why in Python we don't have a native singly-linked and doubly-linked list types? That is, reasons other than - "you can get by without it" (sometimes I *want* lists), or - "you c