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Why We Prepend

By Dave Aronson

Elevator Pitch

Did you switch from an object-oriented or imperative language, to a functional one, and find it hard to adjust to prepending to lists instead of appending? And wonder why? It all makes sense when you know what’s under the hood. This talk will show you what that is, and why it’s done that way.

Description

Did you switch from an object-oriented or imperative language, to a functional one, and find it hard to adjust to prepending to lists instead of appending? And wonder why? It all makes sense when you know what’s under the hood. This talk will show you what that is, and why it’s done that way.