low-level approach

[Alex Thiel]

On Monday 14 January 2002 14:31, Kyle Lahnakoski wrote:
> Brian P Templeton wrote:
> > Kyle Lahnakoski <kyle@arcavia.com> writes:
> > What? Lisp doesn't `naturally' handle strings. Lisp, to me, seems to
> > naturally handle sequences (lists, arrays, etc), dictionary-type
> > objects (alists, hashtables), and functions.
>
> Good, take that one step further and see that strings are lists of
> characters.  Lisp has many list manipulation functions, and therefore
> string manipulation functions.
>

Maybe I got that wrong, but I think list in Lisp are objects separated by 
spaces. So, in that sense strings are not lists.

Cheers,

	Alex