Python's simplicity philosophy

[Paul Rubin]

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:
> > Sorry, yeah, Lisp jargon.  A cons cell is a pair but "consing" has a
> > more generalized informal meaning of allocating any kind of storage on
> > the heap, which will have probably to be garbage collected later.
> > Consing up an object means building it up dynamically.
> 
> This 'generalized informal' meaning is new to me also ;-).

See also: http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/cons.html

> > So it just scans through the list once and then does a single del
> > operation.
> 
> I believe this requires list to be sorted,  

Yes, by intention.  The discussion topic was removing duplicates from
a sorted list.  I should have been a little more explicit though.