Car and cdr (Re: Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme)

Hartmann Schaffer hs at heaven.nirvananet
Tue Oct 14 12:17:06 EDT 2003


In article <bmgh32$1a32$1 at f1node01.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>,
	Pascal Costanza <costanza at web.de> writes:
> ...
> I think that's the essential point here. The advantage of the names car 
> and cdr is that they _don't_ mean anything specific.

gdee, you should read early lisp history ;-).  car and cdr ha[d|ve] a
very specific meaning

hs

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