Re: Sets and Lists, again

From: David Cressey <dcressey_at_verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 12:00:03 GMT
Message-ID: <7xDbg.738$nA2.189@trndny01>

"dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1148097777.431200.106670_at_j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> David Cressey wrote:
> > Recently, in a thread on implementing both threads and lists in a
> > programming language, the example of lists or sets of Presidents arose.
I
> > mentioned that in a list of presidents, Grover Cleveland would appear
once,
> > but in a list of presidencies, he would appear twice.
> >
> > Bob Badour asked what purppose would be served by a list of presidents,
or
> > words to that effect. I'm interested.
> >
> > If one could have a set of presidents, why would one ever want a list?
>
> president[40]
>

I would think that arrays would be more useful than lists for this purpose.

Logically, they are equally useful. But you'd getter performance out of the array. Received on Sat May 20 2006 - 07:00:03 CDT