Using the list type in Icon

In the Icon language, a list is an ordered set of objects. You can put anything in a list---integers, reals, strings, other lists, even entire complex data structures.

To master lists in Icon you need to know just a few things:

• To create an empty list or a list with particular elements in it, see `Creating an Icon list with specific contents'.
• To create an ``array,'' that is, a list with some given number of elements in it, see `Creating an Icon list of a fixed size'.
• To learn how to access or set specific elements of a list, see `Using Icon lists as arrays'.
• If you want to use stacks (pushdown lists), see `Using Icon lists as stacks'.
• You can add or remove elements from either end of an Icon list. See `Using Icon lists as queues'.

John Shipman, john@nmt.edu Last updated: 1996/01/06 21:12:57 UT URL: http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/lang/icon/list.html