[MSLUG] cons, car, cdr?

Guillaume Germain guillaume.germain at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 17:53:23 EST 2007


"a"ddress and "d"ecrement.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_and_cdr


Guillaume


On Dec 19, 2007 5:47 PM, Derek Mahar <derek.mahar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not long ago I started to read Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days
> (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme-Z-H-1.html).
> Section 2.2.3 Dotted Pairs and Lists
> (
> http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme-Z-H-1.html#node_toc_node_sec_2.2.3
> )
> introduces the functions cons, car, and cdr.  Are these function names
> abbreviations or acronyms?  What words do they represent?  More
> specifically, what does the 'a' in car mean and what does the 'd' in
> cdr mean?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Derek
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