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


From: Random832
Subject: Re: why are there [v e c t o r s] in Lisp?
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 17:39:46 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
>
> Because of the name! Nothing else.
>
> I've never seen "vector" in programming having this
> meaning. In OpenGL (GLSL) there were (is) a vector
> type but I thought of that as dealing with
> math/graphical vectors, not to store arbitrary data:

C++ is another example of a language which has a "vector" type for
the purpose of storing arbitrary data. So does Java, though its use
is discouraged (for technical reasons relating to threading
synchronization overhead) in favor of ArrayList.




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