| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: linked list rewrite |
| Date: | 2004-03-24 02:28:59 |
| Message-ID: | 200403240228.i2O2SxY05508@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Neil Conway wrote:
> On 23-Mar-04, at 7:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > No, lcons is one of the names that I think we should stick with on
> > historical grounds. It's widely used in the backend and it has the
> > right connotations for anyone who's ever used Lisp.
>
> I think it has exactly the *wrong* connotations: the name suggests that
> it creates a new cons cell (along with the ensuing implications about
> performance and the internal implementation of the list), which is no
> longer the case.
>
> How about lprepend()? That allows for some symmetric with lappend().
Wow, I like that one!
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