On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 5:09:02 PM UTC-7, Andy Fingerhut wrote: > > Curtis: > > You can do this if you want: > > (def car first) > (def cdr rest) > > but most people accustomed to Clojure would be much more familiar with > first and rest. The Content of the Address and Data Registers haven't been > applicable for a long time, but it wasn't only the names that are changed > -- first and rest work on all kinds of data structures besides lists, and > return implementations of a sequence abstraction, not necessarily pointers > to cons cells. > >
thank you - I expect some changes - but am coming from ruby where the 'principle of least surprise' has been kind to me. > Andy > > On Oct 16, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Curtis wrote: > > > Hello - I was familar with lisp years ago and am very new to clojure. > > > > I am having a hard time understanding how to find 'car' and 'cdr'. > > > > The nice thing about these functions is they always seem to be a part of > lisp. > > > > I would like to use the little lisper to teach lisp to my co-workers so > that we can adopt Clojure. > > > > How can i import cdr or car? > > > > I know i can write these manually or alias them to 'first' and 'rest' - > are they a part of the language? > > > > Cons appears to be around. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
