Re: the necessity of Lisp's Objects?

In article <13qtkic3kki1l4e@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Jon Harrop <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
[SNIP]

> Mathematica's equivalent of cons cells are arrays of objects, so they
> can store an arbitrary number of elements contiguously.
> 
> Speaking of which, why doesn't Lisp do that?

Lisps implemented with "cdr-coding" do in fact store lists contiguously 
in most cases, and even allow pointing into the middle of a contiguous 
list.  This is all managed behind the scenes by cons and the GC.

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