I agree with Eli. first is not car and shouldn't be treated as it. car : (Cons a b) -> a first : (List a) -> a
I also agree with Carl that we should deprecate grandpa's names and give nice names. I suggest "fst" and "snd" and "pair" Jay On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Carl Eastlund <c...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > If they do the wrong thing, we should fix them, not deprecate them. We're > not LISP, let's not promote car/cdr as the primary names for list > operations. > > Carl Eastlund > > > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: >> >> -1, since they are different from what some people would expect them >> to do. -2 for the `empty', `cons?' etc aliases. >> >> >> An hour and a half ago, Vincent St-Amour wrote: >> > I just got tripped up, again, trying to traverse a list with `first' >> > and `rest' in a `racket/base' file. `first' and `rest' are only >> > available in `racket' and `racket/list', but not in `racket/base'. >> > >> > If we want to encourage use of `first' and `rest' over `car' and >> > `cdr' and of `racket/base' when possible (which, e.g., the style >> > guide does), I think it makes sense to provide `first' and `rest' in >> > `racket/base'. >> > >> > The attached patch implements that change. >> > >> > Does this sound reasonable? >> >> -- >> ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: >> http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! >> _________________________ >> Racket Developers list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev >> > > > _________________________ > Racket Developers list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev > -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev