Re: [stack] Advantages of cat, joy ..?

John Cowan <[email protected]>
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Don Groves scripsit:

> Most of us already do that. "cdr" made perfectly good sense to early
> Lispers as "contents of decrement register," but, I agree, "tail" would
> have been better even then.

I doubt if it made sense to anybody except the assembly-language hackers
who implemented it.  "First" and "rest", I think, go back to nearly
the beginning.

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