car, cdr; 1sr, rst

[Sampo Smolander]

In comp.lang.scheme Andrew Dalke <adalke at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Pascal Costanza:
>> I don't know how this could be done with 1st, rst or hd, tl respectively.

> Okay, I gave alternatives of "." and ">" instead of "car" and "cdr"
> "." for "here" and ">" for "the rest; over there".  These are equally
> composable.

>  . == car
>  > == cdr
>  cadr  == >.
>  caddr == >>.
>  cddr == >>

One can also go like:

1st == car
rst == cdr
1rst == cadr
1rrst == caddr
rrst == cddr

The benefit being, it's less messy to quote these in Usenet :-)