From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,NICE_REPLY_A, SCC_BODY_URI_ONLY,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Java and Python have just discovered "record" type finally after 40 years. Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 17:10:23 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 15:10:21 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c9c19b6d886b4f1c5cec5da303f927aa"; logging-data="2805372"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18SYjd+JWtmD7lhKMToFi+Q" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:1qlZGgLA/4MZESwMvBISIJP4Trg= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US, fr Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:65234 List-Id: Le 14/05/2023 à 12:39, Jeffrey R.Carter a écrit : > On 2023-05-14 08:46, J-P. Rosen wrote: >> >> Of course, in LISP there is only one structure, for data and programs >> alike: the list! > > In the LISP I learned, there were only S-expressions (SEXes). A SEX is > either an atom or a list of SEXes. Another way of putting it was there > were atoms and lists of atoms or lists. Either way, there were also atoms. > Right, but I would define atoms as the basic data, not a data /structure/. Oh well, just a matter of definition... -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX https://www.adalog.fr https://www.adacontrol.fr