Re: Arrays vs. Lists

[Michael Lazzaro]

On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 03:38  PM, Uri Guttman wrote:

but you can't derive the rules about allowing push/pop/splice/slice from
that pair of defintions.

Is there any syntactic reason why both of the following cannot be allowed?

(1,2,3).pop
[1,2,3].pop

I don't know that one is any more/less useful than the other, and it would seem a list could be silently promoted to an array where it is used as an array. For example,

\(1,2,3)

returns an array reference...

MikeL