Re:How innovative is Clojure as a Lisp dialect from Lisp exp...
by cgrand-net on Monday January 07, 2019 @06:40AM
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Sort of.
First, conses are mutable so lists are persistent as long as they are used in a persistent way -- it has to be enforced through the codebase (and deps).
Second, lists big-O access/update costs are not as interesting as persistent maps and vectors.
First, conses are mutable so lists are persistent as long as they are used in a persistent way -- it has to be enforced through the codebase (and deps).
Second, lists big-O access/update costs are not as interesting as persistent maps and vectors.