Robert Will wrote:

Why is 'last' so much slower than 'head'?  Why is 'head' not called
'first'?  Why does 'but_last' (aka init) copy the list, but 'but_first'
(aka tail) does not?

Are those rhetoric questions, asked just to inspire some discussion, or you *really* don't know why?



Jerzy Karczmarczuk



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