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Could you elaborate? I'm not familiar with the terms you use and I don't understand the parallel you're drawing when I look them up.
by ad404b8a372f2b9 7y ago
Could you elaborate? I'm not familiar with the terms you use and I don't understand the parallel you're drawing when I look them up.
- inimino 7y agoA cell holds some datum (like "Q" and all its associations) and a pointer is something that can reference another cell, for example ("Q", <rest of alphabet after Q>) includes a pointer to the rest of the alphabet after "Q". This (datum <ptr to the rest>) pair is exactly the LISP list, usually written as s-expressions.