On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:00:26PM -0500, Tanton Gibbs wrote:
> > The problem with cons/car/cdr is that they're fundemental operations.
> > Graham *has* learned from perl, and is receptive to the idea that
> > fundemental operators should be huffman encoded (lambda -> fn).  It
> > would be easy to simply rename car/cdr to first/rest, but that loses
> > the huffman nature of car/cdr.  
> 
> hmm...ML uses hd and tl.  I believe that is pretty coded :)

Good point.  I've used Scheme and Lisp, but not ML...

Z.

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