Could you point me to a beginner's treatment of this topic, especially an example of a graph database, and what exactly a picolisp pointer is?
I'm afraid I don't even know what you mean by a pointer in this context. I know from C what a pointer is, but a picolisp pointer is beyond my comprehension. On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 3:28 PM Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> wrote: > Hi Lawrence, > > > I take it the picolisp graph database follows more the Neo4j property > graph > > idea than any RDF/OWL triples, correct? That seems obvious, but I thought > > I'd check. I haven't dived in deep, buy you seem to use Lisp objects to > > create a vertex. But then what are the edges? Again, I'm just getting > > started. > > Sorry, I know absolutely nothing about Neo4j or RDF/OWL, but the edges are > in > fact trivial. > > As everything in PicoLisp is a pointer (except short numbers), the edges > are > indeed just pointers to other symbols. All those symbols in a DB (called > "external symbols") are loaded lazily on demand. > > ☺/ A!ex > > > > > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe >
