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

[Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>]

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
writes:

> Well, the tuple notion is tained, notably by some
> purely functional programming language

There are "tuples" in linear algebra books as well,
where tuples are pairs, and n-tuples are vectors (or
lists) with n elements.

Anyway, instead of inventing a new terminology that is
supposedly less confusing it is better just to learn
the one used. In this case it is very simple at that
(1D - vector, 2D or more - array).

Otherwise it will be even more confusion as some
people are used to the old terminology, to the point
where there is diverging sets. This happens all the
time with no worries, however in programming it is
especially unpractical as all those functions would
still be using "vector" and not tuple or whatever, and
the people calling them tuples would be lost and think
them gone.

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