python list handling and Lisp list handling

Paul Rubin http
Fri Apr 24 12:19:18 EDT 2009


Mark Tarver <dr.mtarver at ukonline.co.uk> writes:
> But are Python lists also indistinguishable from conventional
> Lisplists for list processing.  

Forgot to add: you might look at http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html

Mark Tarver <dr.mtarver at ukonline.co.uk> writes:

> But are Python lists also indistinguishable from conventional
> Lisplists for list processing.

They are very different.  There is nothing like cons or nconc.
You can't convert two lists to a single longer list with nconc, 
etc.



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