From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jacob Gerlach Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: List-of-lists data structure Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:47:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7c2a0533-8c66-4367-889f-45a536731357@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1397420133 25263 80.91.229.3 (13 Apr 2014 20:15:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 20:15:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 13 22:15:26 2014 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 1WZQoD-0007EN-Mx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2014 22:15:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39046 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WZQoD-0002Ab-8S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2014 16:15:21 -0400 X-Received: by 10.58.82.193 with SMTP id k1mr624787vey.41.1397414870274; Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:47:50 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.93.103 with SMTP id c94mr857103qge.4.1397414870209; Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:47:50 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!cm18no2647927qab.0!news-out.google.com!dz10ni7240qab.1!nntp.google.com!m5no1657038qaj.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=98.217.114.175; posting-account=Hx-_8AoAAACyMXgs4MCS3wNERNLct_lk Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 98.217.114.175 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 18:47:50 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:204856 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 16:15:03 -0400 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:97123 Archived-At: > The approaching the data structure in the wrong way part is a matter of > > pov. When you teach someone to dance, maybe left is right but right is > > wrong (and maybe not!). I think Perlis would appreciate your focus. I think I could have made the structure simpler without the nested list - I bought myself into an extra (car ...) when using the data. But it was a good lesson for a novice.