In <87wr5nl54w....@sapphire.mobileactivedefense.com>, on 04/10/2012 at 09:10 PM, Rainer Weikusat <rweiku...@mssgmbh.com> said:
>'car' and 'cdr' refer to cons cells in Lisp, not to strings. How the >first/rest terminology can be sensibly applied to 'C strings' (which >are similar to linked-lists in the sense that there's a 'special >termination value' instead of an explicit length) A syringe is similar to a sturgeon in the sense that they both start with S. LISP doesn't have arrays, and C doesn't allow you to insert into the middle of an array. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamt...@library.lspace.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
