From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: "Per Starbäck" <per.starback@gmail.com>,
"emacs-tangents@gnu.org" <emacs-tangents@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Why is `nreverse' called `nreverse'?
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 18:26:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878r7in1of.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB5488D672486C73808BE06E5AF3A1A@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com>
On 2023-10-30, at 08:08, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> Googling tells me this:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4982732/what-word-is-abbreviated-by-n-in-names-of-destructive-lisp-functions
>
> which tells me this:
>
> https://gigamonkeys.com/book/they-called-it-lisp-for-a-reason-list-processing.html#destructive-operations
Thanks! I tried to find this on the Internet, too, but I was apparently
too stupid to formulate a correct query in the search engine...
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
---
via emacs-tangents mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-31 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-30 6:00 Why is `nreverse' called `nreverse'? Marcin Borkowski
2023-10-30 6:32 ` Per Starbäck
2023-10-30 7:08 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-10-31 17:26 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2023-10-30 9:17 ` Stephen Berman
2023-10-31 17:25 ` Marcin Borkowski
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