Subject: Re: Newbie question about "cons"?
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 04:27:34 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <1vednfCvpd0bwRLbnZ2dnUVZ_hqdnZ2d@speakeasy.net>
Paul Wallich  <pw@panix.com> wrote:
+---------------
| One of the mid-80s introductions to Lisp (Touretzky?) posited a nice 
| thought-experiment to do this with two arrays: the first array holds all 
| the cars in your universe, the second array holds all the cdrs.
+---------------

Uh... This is how people did list processing in Fortran
in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Sometimes they even
used three arrays -- VALUE (car), NEXT (cdr), and PREV --
to get doubly-linked lists.


-Rob

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