Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> 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 do you mean it's no longer the case? ListCell looks exactly like a
cons cell to me.
regards, tom lane
