From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: why are there [v e c t o r s] in Lisp?
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 17:39:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oafv7t5p.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8737x77ttl.fsf@debian.uxu
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
>
> Because of the name! Nothing else.
>
> I've never seen "vector" in programming having this
> meaning. In OpenGL (GLSL) there were (is) a vector
> type but I thought of that as dealing with
> math/graphical vectors, not to store arbitrary data:
C++ is another example of a language which has a "vector" type for
the purpose of storing arbitrary data. So does Java, though its use
is discouraged (for technical reasons relating to threading
synchronization overhead) in favor of ArrayList.
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2015-10-16 1:51 ` why are there [v e c t o r s] in Lisp? Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-10-16 2:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-10-16 2:29 ` Random832
2015-10-16 2:51 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-10-16 2:56 ` Random832
2015-10-16 23:30 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.482.1445037713.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-17 1:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-10-17 4:47 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.494.1445057637.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-17 15:25 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-10-17 21:12 ` Emanuel Berg
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2015-10-18 1:08 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <mailman.432.1444964227.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-16 3:57 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-10-16 4:17 ` Random832
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2015-10-16 5:16 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <mailman.429.1444962165.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-16 3:31 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-10-16 23:46 ` Emanuel Berg
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2015-10-17 2:04 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-10-17 4:40 ` Random832
2015-10-17 5:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-10-17 4:40 ` Emanuel Berg
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2015-10-17 5:53 ` Barry Margolin
2015-10-17 15:16 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-10-17 21:06 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.518.1445115463.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-18 1:07 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-10-18 12:32 ` Emanuel Berg
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2015-10-18 12:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-10-18 14:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-10-18 21:17 ` Robert Thorpe
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2015-10-18 19:48 ` Barry Margolin
2015-10-18 21:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-10-18 21:39 ` Random832 [this message]
2015-10-19 0:46 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-10-17 5:56 ` Barry Margolin
2015-10-17 15:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-10-16 13:32 ` Barry Margolin
2015-10-16 23:47 ` Emanuel Berg
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2015-10-19 0:45 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-10-16 1:12 Emanuel Berg
2015-10-17 1:11 ` Aurélien Aptel
2015-10-17 4:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-10-17 7:58 ` Jude DaShiell
2015-10-19 16:33 ` Nick Dokos
[not found] ` <mailman.490.1445055179.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-17 15:09 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <mailman.488.1445044303.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-17 2:22 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-10-17 4:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-10-17 5:49 ` Barry Margolin
2015-10-17 15:04 ` Emanuel Berg
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2015-10-17 15:20 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-10-17 15:38 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.511.1445095810.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-17 16:01 ` Javier
2015-10-17 16:03 ` Javier
2015-10-17 16:34 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-10-17 21:18 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-10-17 16:15 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-10-17 21:37 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-10-17 15:18 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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