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From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Of cars and mice [was: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list]
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:54:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y4ZjXGzn6ZcQT35+@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25477.63008.581520.69804@tux.local>

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On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 01:08:00PM +0100, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Tomas,
> 
> On Tuesday, 2022-11-29 09:44:48 +0100, you wrote:
> 
> > ...
> > There are big precedents out there (cf. for example Donald Knuth's
> > WEB for TeX and METAFONT; it seems to have been in the air for
> > some time -- vestiges of that can be found in the shells (if -- fi,
> > case -- esac and so on; pity Lisp must have been a tad early;
> > otherwise we might have car -- rac, definitely a better sound than
> > cdr).
> 
> While this would be feasible  for these two functions,  it wouldn't work
> for "caddr" and ilk :-)

But, but... imagine car-rac-rac-rac (yes, with hyphens!). The sound!

> I faintly remember  discussions back in  the early seventies  to replace
> "car" and "cdr"  (which originally stood for "Contents of Address Regis-
> ter" and "Contents of Decrement Register", respectively, and referred to
> machine instructions on some then modern PDP hardware which were used to
> access the two pointers of a cons)

IBM 704, but we disgress badly.

>                                with "fst" and "rst" (for "first" and
> "rest", respectively) which could even be nicely combined to "frrst" and
> similar.  But this proposal never made it :-(

Pity.

Now where are the mice?

;-)

Cheers
-- 
t

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-29 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-28  2:26 Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list Heime
2022-11-28  2:43 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-28  3:45   ` Heime
2022-11-28  6:11     ` Drew Adams
2022-11-28 20:00   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-28  5:18 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-11-28 20:19   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-28 21:56     ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-28 22:45       ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-28 22:01     ` Heime
2022-11-28 22:24       ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-11-28 22:58         ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-30 14:10           ` tomas
2022-11-30 16:12             ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-28 22:46       ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-28 22:50       ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-29  5:23       ` tomas
2022-11-29  5:32         ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-29  7:56         ` Heime
2022-11-29  8:33           ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-11-29 10:00             ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-29 10:05               ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-29 10:15             ` Heime
2022-11-29  8:38           ` tomas
2022-11-29  9:54           ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-29  8:17         ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-11-29  8:44           ` tomas
2022-11-29 12:08             ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2022-11-29 19:54               ` tomas [this message]
2022-11-30  1:17                 ` Of cars and mice [was: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list] Emanuel Berg
2022-11-30  1:13               ` Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list Emanuel Berg
2022-11-28 19:59 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-28 21:56   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-28 22:18     ` Heime
2022-11-28 22:41       ` Drew Adams
2022-11-29 11:17   ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2022-11-30 17:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-11-30 18:17   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-30 19:30   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-01 15:11     ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-01 17:25       ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-03 21:29         ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-05 23:35           ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-06  1:36             ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-06  1:43               ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-06  2:17                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-06  2:40                   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-06 13:56                     ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-12-06 14:45                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-06  2:52                   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-06 17:22                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-06 22:30                       ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-08 23:15                         ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-28 23:52                           ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-31 16:57                             ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-31 22:09                               ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-01 12:16                                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-01-08  4:40                                   ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-09  6:32                                     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-14 12:05                                       ` Michael Heerdegen

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