Re: [ANN] Microlight (was Re: paving cowpaths with libraries)

[Ross Bencina <rossb-lists@...>]

On 21/02/2012 5:58 PM, steve donovan wrote:
> > I second Dirk, I'd use "sequence", for what you now name lists.
> Still not convinced.

Other obvious names:

Array
Vector

Sorry I lost the thread, are we talking about the python-like lists in 
Penlight? is there really a strong reason that such a thing should be 
present in ml. I'd start to question whether it passes the "Generality" 
test when Lua tables are already used quite naturally as sequential arrays.

I'm not sure I see the rationale. If it's just to provide python-like 
slicing then maybe a better approach is to add table:slice()

Or are these lazy lists? more like python generators or C++ iterators.


Changing the subject: ml seems a bit too much like ML to me (a well 
known functional language with many subgenres).

Ross.