From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Learning LISP? Date: 1998/11/30 Message-ID: <3121447236811364@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 417213148 References: <3661a1ac.5025747@news.tct.net> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Steve Gonedes | You can do, (caar (acons 'a 'b 'c)) as well. You can use first instead | of car; some like this better, I'm surprised that c{ad}r haven't been | declared archaic. because CONS is not a list-building operator, it's a tree-building operator. lists are just special cases of trees. and vice versa. :) FIRST, SECOND,... and REST work on lists, C[AD]+R on trees. #:Erik -- The Microsoft Dating Program -- where do you want to crash tonight?