On 14-Jul-2015 02:38, Tofu Ninja wrote:
On Monday, 13 July 2015 at 23:01:35 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
Popular != the right thing.
List in CS at large is generally speaking not indexable nor defines
such operations. So there may be a lot of people who don't care for
what a list is, but that doesn't make list a synonym for sequence.
Who decreed lists can not be indexable, seriously this seems really odd
to me.
Come on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_%28abstract_data_type%29
Implementation of the list data structure may provide some of the
following operations:
a constructor for creating an empty list;
an operation for testing whether or not a list is empty;
an operation for prepending an entity to a list
an operation for appending an entity to a list
an operation for determining the first component (or the "head") of
a list
an operation for referring to the list consisting of all the
components of a list except for its first (this is called the "tail" of
the list.)
That's all. No indexing folks.
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Dmitry Olshansky
