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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: "emacs-tangents@gnu.org" <emacs-tangents@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why is `nreverse' called `nreverse'?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 10:17:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7ggqxjb.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cyww6457.fsf@mbork.pl> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Mon, 30 Oct 2023 07:00:36 +0100")

On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 07:00:36 +0100 Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I know that the "n-" prefix means that it is destructive.  But why "n-"?
> I also know that this comes from Common Lisp, but still -- why the
> letter "n-"?
>
> TIA,

Paul Graham writes in ANSI Common Lisp (Chapter 12, page 202, footnote 2):

   The n originally stood for "non-consing."

Steve Berman

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-10-30  9:17 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
2023-10-30  9:17 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2023-10-31 17:25   ` Marcin Borkowski

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