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> I don't want to give that up and just use cons/car/cdr. Any somewhat modern Lisp has hash tables, vectors, etc.
by davexunit 12y ago
> I don't want to give that up and just use cons/car/cdr.
Any somewhat modern Lisp has hash tables, vectors, etc.
- technomancy 12y agoYes, but they don't always have convenient literal notation or a consistent sequence abstraction that encompasses all collection types. For instance, I love Racket, but the hash literals are very noisy and apply implicit quoting, so they almost never get used. (Though Racket does a good job in most places of having a unified collection interface.) Emacs Lisp has the same problem but nothing coming anywhere close to a collection interface.