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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Containers - nontrivial element access
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:07:37 +0200
Date: 2007-10-14T17:07:40+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <102i63ywf0lkk$.rvt1lrmi644p.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1192369761.9954.3.camel@K72

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:49:21 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 09:24 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:59:16 +0200, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
>> 
>>> Yes.  But why do we stop at arrays, instead of at binary trees or
>>> doubly linked lists?
>> 
>> And why have we started at arrays? With their dopes, index types, slices
>> etc?
> 
> I guess because of the ways computers were built, and used.

Were used compilers, or languages?

>>  The least aggregation primitive is pair.
> 
> CAR + CDR?

These are operations on an ordered tuple. I think unordered containers
could be useful.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-14 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-01 21:55 Containers - nontrivial element access Maciej Sobczak
2007-10-01 23:52 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2007-10-02 16:40   ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-02 23:16     ` Alex R. Mosteo
2007-10-02 20:47   ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-10-02 23:23     ` Alex R. Mosteo
2007-10-02  0:39 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-10-02 16:44   ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-03  0:20     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-10-03 19:40       ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-10-03 19:56         ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-03 20:21           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-10-03 22:37             ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-04  8:06               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-10-03 22:02         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-10-04  0:16         ` Robert A Duff
2007-10-07  8:41           ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-10-11 19:15             ` Robert A Duff
2007-10-14  4:59               ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-10-14  7:24                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-10-14 13:49                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-10-14 15:07                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2007-10-02 20:50   ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-10-03  0:22     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-10-03  8:26       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-10-03 18:49         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-10-03 19:09           ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-03 19:15           ` Simon Wright
2007-10-03 19:48             ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-10-03 19:58             ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-03 19:35           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-10-02  2:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-10-02 16:47   ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-02  7:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-10-02 16:37 ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-02 21:02   ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-10-02 22:20     ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-03 19:59       ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-10-03 22:55         ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-04  0:22         ` Robert A Duff
2007-10-04 13:01         ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-10-04 14:01           ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-04 21:58           ` Matthew Heaney
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