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tomas |
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Of cars and mice [was: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list] |
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Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:54:04 +0100 |
On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 01:08:00PM +0100, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Tomas,
>
> On Tuesday, 2022-11-29 09:44:48 +0100, you wrote:
>
> > ...
> > There are big precedents out there (cf. for example Donald Knuth's
> > WEB for TeX and METAFONT; it seems to have been in the air for
> > some time -- vestiges of that can be found in the shells (if -- fi,
> > case -- esac and so on; pity Lisp must have been a tad early;
> > otherwise we might have car -- rac, definitely a better sound than
> > cdr).
>
> While this would be feasible for these two functions, it wouldn't work
> for "caddr" and ilk :-)
But, but... imagine car-rac-rac-rac (yes, with hyphens!). The sound!
> I faintly remember discussions back in the early seventies to replace
> "car" and "cdr" (which originally stood for "Contents of Address Regis-
> ter" and "Contents of Decrement Register", respectively, and referred to
> machine instructions on some then modern PDP hardware which were used to
> access the two pointers of a cons)
IBM 704, but we disgress badly.
> with "fst" and "rst" (for "first" and
> "rest", respectively) which could even be nicely combined to "frrst" and
> similar. But this proposal never made it :-(
Pity.
Now where are the mice?
;-)
Cheers
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- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, (continued)
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Heime, 2022/11/29
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Marcin Borkowski, 2022/11/29
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Heime, 2022/11/29
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/30
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/30
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, tomas, 2022/11/29
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/30
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Marcin Borkowski, 2022/11/29
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, tomas, 2022/11/29
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Dr Rainer Woitok, 2022/11/29
- Of cars and mice [was: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list],
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- Re: Of cars and mice [was: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list], Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/30
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/30
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/30
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/30
- Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/30
Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/28
Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list, Dr Rainer Woitok, 2022/11/29