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| From | "Elias Fotinis" <efotinis@yahoo.com> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Python and Lisp : car and cdr |
| Date | 2011-06-19 16:24 +0300 |
| References | <franck-58760D.16453817062011@news.free.fr> <4dfd90de$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> <4DFDF1FB.3050907@stoneleaf.us> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.147.1308489908.1164.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:56:27 +0300, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > Lie Ryan wrote: > >> def length(L): >> if not L: return 0 >> return 1 + length(cdr(L)) > > How is this different from regular ol' 'len' ? It's better, because len() can't overflow the stack. ;)
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Python and Lisp : car and cdr Franck Ditter <franck@ditter.org> - 2011-06-17 16:45 +0200
Re: Python and Lisp : car and cdr Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-06-17 09:29 -0600
Re: Python and Lisp : car and cdr Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-06-18 15:34 +0100
Re: Python and Lisp : car and cdr Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 16:00 +1000
Re: Python and Lisp : car and cdr Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-19 05:56 -0700
Re: Python and Lisp : car and cdr Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-19 13:24 +0000
Re: Python and Lisp : car and cdr Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-06-19 12:20 -0400
Re: Python and Lisp : car and cdr Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2011-06-19 19:38 +0300
Re: Python and Lisp : car and cdr Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org> - 2011-06-19 16:26 +0200
Re: Python and Lisp : car and cdr Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 23:23 +1000
Re: Python and Lisp : car and cdr "Elias Fotinis" <efotinis@yahoo.com> - 2011-06-19 16:24 +0300
Re: Python and Lisp : car and cdr Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-19 08:07 -0700
Re: Python and Lisp : car and cdr Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-06-19 11:36 -0700
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