["Followup-To:" header set to comp.lang.lisp.]
On 2012-04-11, Shmuel Metz <[email protected]> wrote:
> In <[email protected]>, on 04/10/2012
> at 09:10 PM, Rainer Weikusat <[email protected]> said:
>
>>'car' and 'cdr' refer to cons cells in Lisp, not to strings. How the
>>first/rest terminology can be sensibly applied to 'C strings' (which
>>are similar to linked-lists in the sense that there's a 'special
>>termination value' instead of an explicit length)
>
> A syringe is similar to a sturgeon in the sense that they both start
> with S. LISP doesn't have arrays, and C doesn't allow you to insert
> into the middle of an array.
Lisp, however, has arrays. (Not to mention hash tables, structures, and
classes). Where have you been since 1960-something?
(let ((array #(1 2 3 4)))
(aref array 3)) ;; -> 4, O(1) access
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
