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.