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In general, in a discussion about or adjacent to programming language design, people will tend to expect 'list' to be used to mean a data structure that behaves
by mst 3y ago
In general, in a discussion about or adjacent to programming language design, people will tend to expect 'list' to be used to mean a data structure that behaves like a singly linked list ala lisp's cons cell based list data structures.
The programming styles list-first and array-first languages encourage are sufficiently completely different that using them interchangeably tends to be a really bad idea, and honestly python's arrays being named that way irritates me even if I don't consider 'this irritates me' to be a criticism per se.