Re: linked list rewrite

Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> 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 do you mean it's no longer the case?  ListCell looks exactly like a
cons cell to me.

			regards, tom lane