On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Wolfgang Jeltsch
Hello Fons,
why do you use the term vector? I'd say that this term is more or less wrong for what this type is about. The distinguishing property of vectors compared to lists is that there is addition and scalar multiplication for vectors.
That depends on how you interpret the word vector, which is polysemous: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector You are interpreting it as "An element in a vector space, often represented as a coordinate vector" whereas in this case I try to mean "A one-dimensional array".
The data type you defined is a fixed size list.
The fact that FSVec is internally implemented using lists doesn't imply that FSVec should be interpreted as a list. FSVec is an ADT and I could as well have used something else to implement it (inmutable arrays for instance).