Re: UT_Pair car and cdr


Subject: Re: UT_Pair car and cdr
From: Patrick Lam (plam@plam.lcs.mit.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 10:46:40 CDT


On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 smith@missioncriticallinux.com wrote:

> you have a list (1 2 3 4 5)
> (car '(1 2 3 4 5)) => 1
> (cdr '(1 2 3 4 5)) => (2 3 4 5)

That's because (1 2 3 4) is syntactic sugar for (cons 1 (cons 2 (cons 3
(cons 4 ())))).

pat



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