From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Subject: Re: Java and Python have just discovered "record" type finally after 40 years.
Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 16:14:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878rdrrlly.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: u3qdo6$2joho$1@dont-email.me
"Jeffrey R.Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org.not> writes:
> On 2023-05-14 08:46, J-P. Rosen wrote:
>> Of course, in LISP there is only one structure, for data and programs
>> alike: the list!
>
> In the LISP I learned, there were only S-expressions (SEXes). A SEX is
> either an atom or a list of SEXes.
I never saw a LISP S-expressions defined that way. Did this list really
no have a "dotted pair" as the basic structure with lists being simply a
special case?
--
Ben.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-12 17:50 Java and Python have just discovered "record" type finally after 40 years Nasser M. Abbasi
2023-05-12 18:58 ` richardthiebaud
2023-05-12 21:33 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-05-13 7:13 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-05-13 11:18 ` Luke A. Guest
2023-05-13 16:53 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-05-14 6:46 ` J-P. Rosen
2023-05-14 7:20 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2023-05-14 9:49 ` Luke A. Guest
2023-05-14 9:43 ` Luke A. Guest
2023-05-14 9:45 ` Luke A. Guest
2023-05-14 10:29 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-05-14 10:37 ` Ben Bacarisse
2023-05-14 10:39 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-05-14 15:10 ` J-P. Rosen
2023-05-14 15:14 ` Ben Bacarisse [this message]
2023-05-14 16:56 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-05-15 1:11 ` Ben Bacarisse
2023-05-15 10:44 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-05-17 0:24 ` Ben Bacarisse
2023-05-14 12:46 ` Bill Findlay
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