On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 08:56:25PM +0200, Mike Nordell wrote:
> Patrick Lam wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 May 2001, Mike Nordell wrote:
> > > Could someone explain these TLAs?
> > They're the standard pair accessors in LISP-like languages, where you
> > create a pair with cons:
> [...]
> > Car stands for "contents of address register" and cdr (pronounced
> > "could-er") stands for "contents of decrement register."'
> Thanks for the excellent explanation, but
> In C++ we have a standard library which contains a template data type
> std::pair. That one contains two data members named "first" and "second".
isn't car and cdr in practice head and tail?
Hugs, rms
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