Subject: Re: When CANNOT use 'first'/'rest' in place of 'car'/'cdr'?
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:01:02 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <ZZ-dnSDWUt4DsoLfRVn-3g@speakeasy.net>
Gorbag <gorbag@invalid.acct> wrote: +--------------- | "Pascal Costanza" <pc@p-cos.net> wrote: | > The advantage of the names car and cdr is that they don't mean anything. | | Content of the Address Register and Content of the Data Register. +--------------- "Decrement", not "Data": <http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/cdr.html> -Rob ----- Rob Warnock <rpw3@rpw3.org> 627 26th Avenue <URL:http://rpw3.org/> San Mateo, CA 94403 (650)572-2607