In <87aa2iz3l1....@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com>, on 04/11/2012 at 05:32 PM, "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <p...@informatimago.com> said:
>You're confused. C doesn't have arrays. Lisp has arrays. C only has >vectors Neither C nor any other programming language has vectors ;-) >That C calls its vectors "array", or its bytes "char" doesn't change >the fact that C has no array and no character. That various programming languages use the term "vector" for data structures that are not vectors does not change the fact that they don't have vectors. If you're going to complain about C nomenclature, you'd have a much better case complaining about "cast". -- 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