(sorry for top-posting) Languages have random access / sequential data structures.
Sure. Languages. This is a data format, not a language. Why should I not inflate a edn-list into a vector in my language? What if I don't have a random access thing handy (because, e.g., I only have trees/tables, as e.g. tcl where arrays are actually hashtables with integer keys)? Please do read my post again. I'm aware of the clojure link etc. etc. etc. We're talking about a data format here. Regards, -Martin ________________________________________ From: clojure@googlegroups.com [clojure@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sean Corfield [seancorfi...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 18:44 To: clojure@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: edn On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Weber, Martin S <martin.we...@nist.gov> wrote: > The question that's left for me is: why vectors and lists? I mean, from a > data format perspective, and a non-clojure implementor, I'm not sure the > distinction makes sense. After all for the _data format_, in its serialized > form, the vector will not be a random access structure. It has to be > deserialized, and access to an element will have linear time complexity. > Again, I understand its relevance from the clojure perspective. Is this just > "too important" for edn's current "implementor", clojure ? I think it's a useful hint to allow sequences of data that can be inflated into data structures supporting random access in constant time vs those that don't. Many languages have both list-like collections AND array-like collections. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
