Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
So please let's vote once and for all.
first/last.They're just the most sensible symbols to use for retrieving the first and last element :).
LISP: car lasthttp://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/they-called-it-lisp-for-a-reason-list-processing.html
Common Lisp (the Lisp I'm most familiar with) also has 'first', which is equivalent to 'car' and the antonym of 'last'.
('car's antonym is 'cdr', 'car' and 'last' are not meant to be paired up like this)
