Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamt...@library.lspace.org.invalid> writes:
> 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.
You're confused. C doesn't have arrays. Lisp has arrays.
C only has vectors (Lisp has vectors too).
That C calls its vectors "array", or its bytes "char" doesn't change the
fact that C has no array and no character.
cl-user> (make-array '(3 4 5) :initial-element 42)
#3A(((42 42 42 42 42) (42 42 42 42 42) (42 42 42 42 42) (42 42 42 42 42))
((42 42 42 42 42) (42 42 42 42 42) (42 42 42 42 42) (42 42 42 42 42))
((42 42 42 42 42) (42 42 42 42 42) (42 42 42 42 42) (42 42 42 42 42)))
cl-user> (make-array 10 :initial-element 42)
#(42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42)
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