From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Random832 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: why are there [v e c t o r s] in Lisp? Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 17:39:46 -0400 Message-ID: <87oafv7t5p.fsf@fastmail.com> References: <87mvvjeg29.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87eggvebfs.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87pp0eckss.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87a8rhcypj.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87fv19asrn.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87vba49vzs.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <8737x77ttl.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445204451 21293 80.91.229.3 (18 Oct 2015 21:40:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 21:40:51 +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 Oct 18 23:40:43 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 1Znvh3-0007gI-A9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 23:40:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35625 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Znvh2-00087p-IF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 17:40:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45776) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Znvgn-00087j-9W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 17:40:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Znvgk-0002G3-Jt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 17:40:25 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36359) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Znvgk-0002Fz-Cl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 17:40:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Znvgj-0007LZ-Fx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 23:40:21 +0200 Original-Received: from c-68-39-146-59.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([68.39.146.59]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 23:40:21 +0200 Original-Received: from random832 by c-68-39-146-59.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 23:40:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-68-39-146-59.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UhyFQjbe7KDhlkNYvuIfaI/0d2M= 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:107744 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg 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.