Re: Collections and data structures wishlist?
Matthias Felleisen <[email protected]>
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> On Jan 18, 2019, at 10:22 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > - A separation between using lists as homogeneous collections and using lists as fixed-size tuples. So there'd be a separate `tuple?` data type that's structurally equivalent to a list but meant to be used differently. For example, `(list/c number?)` would mean a list of many numbers, but `(tuple/c number?)` would mean a tuple of size 1 containing a number. > "It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.” http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html <http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html> "It is better to have 100 transducers operate on one data structure interface than 10 functions on 10 data structures.” Rich Hickey, History of Clojure -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/[email protected] For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.