From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Surprising behaviour of 'append' with strings
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2022 21:57:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a653by2i.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874jvbde00.fsf@web.de
Michael Heerdegen wrote:
>> Strings are not really lists of characters. Well,
>> conceptually they are! And `append' seems to agree ...
>
> Lists and strings are sequences.
Hm, I wonder what those are called according to
CS Type theory? Metatypes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_theory
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[not found] <6554cc02-2082-3dca-73cc-05fee1c6c4d0.ref@yahoo.de>
2022-11-06 11:05 ` Surprising behaviour of 'append' with strings R. Diez
2022-11-06 12:13 ` Stephen Berman
2022-11-06 12:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-06 20:28 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-11-06 20:57 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-11-06 12:19 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-06 12:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-06 12:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-06 12:39 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-06 20:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-11-06 21:45 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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