On Sun, 01 Apr 2001 20:18:10 GMT, deadmeat wrote: >> There is a dilemma here nobody has solved. >Chicken / egg problem... Kind of -- by the time we've learned enough Python to know, we understand it well enough to not need to ask. But I'd call it a "leaky roof problem": if it ain't raining the roof don't leak, and when it's raining I cain't fix it nohow. >> occur to you to question whether list[i] is constant-time or takes time >> proportional to i >Well, you've lost me there. I would have thought a paragraph or two >introducing the concept of arrays and how to reference each element would >pretty much take care of it.. They're called lists, not arrays. A Lisp programmer would immediately ask that. An APL programmer would have a MESS of questions (and would ask them all at the same time, of course). Always doing things backwards, Forth programmers are. >> the-only-objective-truth-is-that-all-other-languages-suck<wink>-ly >Only Perl sux :) Oh dear, no. I guess I've learned too many languages -- they all suck, except Python. -- -William "Billy" Tanksley -- from __vacuum__ import *
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