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. -- Values of beeta will give rise to dom! John Cowan (5th/6th edition 'mv' said this if you tried http://www.ccil.org/~cowan to rename '.' or '..' entries; see [email protected] http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/odd.html)