[Openmcl-devel] consing

[Ralf Stoye]

@Ron

> That is not true.  Stacks and cons cells are fundamentally different data structures.  You can build a stack out of cons cells, but you can't build cons cells out of a stack.  A stack is *strictly* a last-in-first-out data structure, which is the reason it doesn't need to be garbage collected.

sure you can allocate cons cells on a stack, but you will crash if you return this list to the caller (try dynamic-extent for that ;-) )

> Well, by implementing a stack of course.  There are a lot of good books and articles about how to implement compilers.  Have you read any of them?

So please give an example (eg. Dragon Book? Hint Hint) 

> Have you read anything about the Ackerman function

Keep on topic: this list is not about education, it's about information, in this case the problem is a limited (fixed sized) stack.
Sorry - i havn't enough time to explain further - maybe some other list member? 

@Tom & Joshua
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