On 2011-07-12, Petter Gustad <newsmailco...@gustad.com> wrote: > Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> writes: > >> it's funny, in all these supposedly modern high-level langs, they >> don't provide even simple list manipulation functions such as union, >> intersection, and the like. Not in perl, not in python, not in lisps. > > In Common Lisp you have: > > CL-USER> (union '(a b c) '(b c d)) > (A B C D) > CL-USER> (intersection '(a b c) '(b c d)) > (C B)
What's the rationale for providing them? Are the definitions obvious for collections that a not sets? -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
