On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 08:32:06PM +0100, Pierpaolo Bernardi wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 6:24 PM, Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Right Lindsay, this is called "nconc" in other versions of Lisp. There was 
> > the
> > convention - for some obscure reason - to put an "n" in front of the names 
> > of
> > destructive list operations: nconc, nreverse, ndelete ...
> 
> In case someone wonders, the n prefix stood for 'non-consing'

Cool! Thanks!!

♪♫ Alex
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