Re: why are there [v e c t o r s] in Lisp?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
>> Traditionally in Lisp, "array" has meant
>> multi-dimensional arrays, while "vector" means
>> 1-dimensional arrays.
>
> Got it!
>
> I don't think I would have asked the original question
> if they (the vectors) were called arrays because then
> there's no association to linear algebra and the array
> is a well-known data structure concept.

Obviously not.

And linear algebra deals with matrices and tensors etc, which are
arrays!



> But now that I know I don't mind vectors being called
> vectors, because that is what they are, and it is cool
> to have this specific a terminology!

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