From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: why are there [v e c t o r s] in Lisp? Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 07:00:04 +0200 Message-ID: <87zizium23.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87mvvjeg29.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87eggvebfs.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87pp0eckss.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87lhb2w1jr.fsf@fastmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445057489 4699 80.91.229.3 (17 Oct 2015 04:51:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 04:51:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 17 06:51:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnJSd-0004ux-PQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 06:51:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57018 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnJSc-00026J-OB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 00:51:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49758) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnJSR-00025x-Qa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 00:51:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnJSO-0002Kl-Ir for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 00:51:03 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42571) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnJSO-0002KE-Br for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 00:51:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnJSN-0004cB-GO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 06:50:59 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 06:50:59 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 06:50:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iuysQ9M3NApSs/EHZXk3HV1reVo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107694 Archived-At: Random832 writes: > Basically, a literal syntax doesn't make a type > faster in general, but for many languages and many > real-world implementations it can certainly make the > specific action of constructing an object faster. At the very least, it makes it faster to type the type! :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573