Re: Some things that pointer-less languages can't do efficiently

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From: Richard A. O'Keefe
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 1990 05:27

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In article <10397:Oct1212:55:1090@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>, brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> Oh? I don't believe you. Show me the LISP code that flips a stack in
> bounded memory. Well?

(setq reversed-stack (nreverse original-stack))

(Since Lisp has rplaca/rplacd -- or, in Scheme, set-car!/set-cdr! -- Lisp
is a very poor example of a "pointerless: language...)
-- 
Fear most of all to be in error.	-- Kierkegaard, quoting Socrates.

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Subject: Re: Some things that pointer-less languages can't do efficiently
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