Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!citcom!jack From: jack@citcom.UUCP (Jack Waugh) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Importance of REPLACA, REPLACD, and the like? Message-ID: <22@citcom.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Jul-87 13:32:55 EDT Article-I.D.: citcom.22 Posted: Sat Jul 11 13:32:55 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 16:44:42 EDT Organization: Citcom Systems, Inc., Herndon, VA Lines: 5 Summary: Question from novice -- does value language suffice? Is it possible to solve serious programming applications with LISP without using replacement operators? To put it another way, could a list be implemented in any other way than as a chain of cons nodes? This is a novice type question, so please don't reply publicly.