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 17:04:15 +0200 Message-ID: <877fmly1sg.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87oafzpqfj.fsf@debian.uxu> <87lhb2cjy5.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <876126w0t8.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445093747 24669 80.91.229.3 (17 Oct 2015 14:55:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 14:55:47 +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 16:55:39 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 1ZnStV-0000dI-PH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 16:55:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58541 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnStU-0006qq-Kg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:55:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59452) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnStG-0006qg-5U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:55:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnSt7-0000Ve-Qi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:55:16 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57442) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnSt7-0000VZ-KF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:55:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnSt4-0000ES-PY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 16:55:10 +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 16:55:10 +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 16:55:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 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:fSXTeWV6dBTQ142LqD/noKl8HhI= 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:107704 Archived-At: Barry Margolin 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. 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! -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573