On 1/28/2010 11:57 PM, Steve Howell wrote: > --- On Thu, 1/28/10, Josiah Carlson <josiah.carl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> [...] in the decade+ that I've been using >> Python and >> needed an ordered sequence; lists were the right solution >> 99% of the >> time [...] > > What do you think of LISP, and "car" in particular (apart from the stupidly > cryptic name)?
A LISP list/pair has nothing to do with a Python list. The list of LISP is a *singly-linked* list. You cannot O(1) index a LISP list. A Python list is more equivalent to a LISP vector, which "car" does not work with; in fact, there is not even a "pop" operator -- all size changes of a vector O(n) unless the implementation is playing games (like the one you are proposing for the start and the one Python already uses for the end of a list). (And with this, clearly uninformed reply by you, I am now ignoring your trolling.) -- Scott Dial sc...@scottdial.com scod...@cs.indiana.edu _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
