From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Subject: Re: Java and Python have just discovered "record" type finally after 40 years.
Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 11:37:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fs7zryfy.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: u3q03n$2iba1$1@dont-email.me
"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:
> Of course, in LISP there is only one structure, for data and programs
> alike: the list!
LISP had S-expressions -- pairs of atoms or other S-expressions. A list
was just a special case. Many other structures could be built using
S-expressions. An important one was that association list -- a list of
(key . value) pairs that was often used very much like a record type
(though it's quite a different beast).
--
Ben.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-12 17:50 Java and Python have just discovered "record" type finally after 40 years Nasser M. Abbasi
2023-05-12 18:58 ` richardthiebaud
2023-05-12 21:33 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-05-13 7:13 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-05-13 11:18 ` Luke A. Guest
2023-05-13 16:53 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-05-14 6:46 ` J-P. Rosen
2023-05-14 7:20 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2023-05-14 9:49 ` Luke A. Guest
2023-05-14 9:43 ` Luke A. Guest
2023-05-14 9:45 ` Luke A. Guest
2023-05-14 10:29 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-05-14 10:37 ` Ben Bacarisse [this message]
2023-05-14 10:39 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-05-14 15:10 ` J-P. Rosen
2023-05-14 15:14 ` Ben Bacarisse
2023-05-14 16:56 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-05-15 1:11 ` Ben Bacarisse
2023-05-15 10:44 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-05-17 0:24 ` Ben Bacarisse
2023-05-14 12:46 ` Bill Findlay
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