On May 15, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Vagif Verdi wrote:
It looks to me like vectors almost completely overtake lists for all purposes.
I think that's a fair statement. Lists are still:- key as the data structure that represents a "call" (to a function, macro, or special form)
- useful for cases where you want to add/remove something to/from the beginning of a collection efficiently
- more efficient than vectors (to a degree that may or may not matter) for use as a stack via conj and pop [1]
Regarding quoted lists, Rich had this to say [2]:
Or better yet, just use a vector, please. It's more idiomatic Clojure (doseq [word ["one" "two" "three"]] (println word)) Quoted lists are an ugly part of Lisps that can be avoided in Clojure. I don't see a lot of use for them other than in macros and other code-producing code.
Another nice benefit of Clojure's efficient vectors over lists is that functions that produce a collection of results can produce and store them in order without needing to "reverse" the result just before returning. Reversing is a common operation in some other Lisps and a rare one in Clojure.
--Steve [1] From David's reply in this thread. [2] http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/1fb853de29dc1bd7
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