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| From: | Javier |
| Subject: | Re: why are there [v e c t o r s] in Lisp? |
| Date: | Sat, 17 Oct 2015 16:01:00 +0000 (UTC) |
| User-agent: | tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (Linux/3.18.6-1-ARCH (x86_64)) |
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote: > "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> > writes: > >> Obviously not. >> >> And linear algebra deals with matrices and tensors >> etc, which are arrays! > > They are not called arrays but matrices so there is no > confusing the data structure array with the linear > algebra concept matrix. If you want to avoid confusions with linear algebra you can use the word 'tuples' instead of 'vectors', like in Python. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple One question: is a Python tuple exactly the same as a Lisp vector?
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