- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:44:58 -0500
- To: Drew McDermott <drew.mcdermott@yale.edu>
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
> > [Sandro Hawke?] > >but in LISP it's only two cons cells: > > > > X: [ a | Y ] location: [ car | cdr ] > > > > Y: [ b | empty ] > > [Pat Hayes] > But this isnt quite fair since in LISP everything is a list, but in > RDF we need to say this is a list, which would add one more triple. > >Minor correction: It is not true that in Lisp everything is a list, >and the information that something is a list does take up space, which >is normally omitted from list diagrams. (Even in 1965 Lisp had >nonlists, such as symbols and numbers.) True. What I should have said is, LISP only has one container type. Pat --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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