Travis Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wouldn't call it unfortunate. The list semantics follow LISP's > semantics far more closely than C's array semantics. I would hazard > to guess that they are called lists because that is what every > functional language calls them and this aspect of python was modeled > after functional languages.
1. I don't think python was modelled after functional languages--it has always been imperative, while slowly gaining functional features, sometimes against opposition. 2. In functional langagues, "list" traditionally means a linked structure while "array" is a linear structure, so python's use of the term "list" is actually a little bit confusing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
