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Re: Python and Lisp : car and cdr

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Date Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:24:37 +0300
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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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