From: Ian Wild <ian.wild@eurocontrol.int>
Subject: Re: ASCL a doomed idea?
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:08:45 GMT
Date: 2001-12-12T10:08:45+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C172DBE.3B7DB9E9@eurocontrol.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9v6cn5$dcfkh$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de
Nick Roberts wrote:
>
> ... There are several programming languages in which a string is
> explicitly a list. Think about LISP.
There may indeed be several such languages, but Lisp isn't
one of them A Lisp string is an array of characters.
(subtypep 'string 'array) ==> T
> It seems utterly bizarre and beyond all
> reason to me to suggest that a string is not, in general, a kind of list.
(subtypep 'string 'list) ==> NIL
> It's a list of characters.
Apparently not.
> Isn't that something a four-year-old would
> understand?
Maybe. But your typical 4yo doesn't care about O(n) v O(1)
access times.
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-06 20:26 ASCL a doomed idea? Michael Erdmann
2001-12-06 20:49 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-09 19:07 ` Nick Roberts
2001-12-09 21:37 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-10 19:36 ` Nick Roberts
2001-12-10 22:37 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-10 23:30 ` Chad R. Meiners
2001-12-11 1:42 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-11 3:40 ` Chad R. Meiners
2001-12-11 14:45 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-11 15:06 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-11 15:09 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2001-12-11 17:18 ` Stephen Leake
2001-12-12 4:29 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-12 14:40 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-11 15:25 ` Larry Hazel
2001-12-12 4:21 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-12 14:32 ` Stephen Leake
2001-12-12 19:40 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-16 13:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-12-11 14:45 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-11 15:11 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-11 17:43 ` Nick Roberts
2001-12-12 0:37 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-12 4:31 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-11 22:45 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-12 1:39 ` Nick Roberts
2001-12-12 10:08 ` Ian Wild [this message]
2001-12-12 17:03 ` Nick Roberts
2001-12-12 22:09 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-12-12 14:34 ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-11 14:45 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-12 4:32 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-12-12 14:48 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-12 17:02 ` Nick Roberts
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