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by General Maximus
Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:25 am
Forum: Common Lisp
Topic: copy-list vs. copy-tree
Replies: 5
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Re: copy-list vs. copy-tree

wchogg wrote:Right.
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond- ... cells.html gives a nice pictoral explanation.
That explains it. Thanks :)
by General Maximus
Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:24 am
Forum: Common Lisp
Topic: copy-list vs. copy-tree
Replies: 5
Views: 18647

Re: copy-list vs. copy-tree

So what you mean to say is, even though both of them are logically the same list, but they have different internal representations?
by General Maximus
Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:09 am
Forum: Common Lisp
Topic: copy-list vs. copy-tree
Replies: 5
Views: 18647

copy-list vs. copy-tree

I've been reading Paul Graham's ANSI Common Lisp . I've just reached chapter 3, and I'm already loving the language. I've got a little bit of trouble with some code I saw in the book. In chapter 3 he mentions that all lists can be thought of as trees and demonstrates a piece of code which returns a ...