Re: linked list rewrite - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: linked list rewrite
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Msg-id DB41D0C2-7D32-11D8-8EB3-000A95AB279E@samurai.com
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In response to Re: linked list rewrite  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: linked list rewrite  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Re: linked list rewrite  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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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().

-Neil



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