On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:52:24AM -0400, James Platt wrote: > > Also related to the background of the users is, for example, the > family of functions including car, cdr, caar, cddadr, etc.. I > puzzled over the question of why these functions even exist for quite > a while. I had never heard of this way of doing things before. As I > understand it, these functions are basically around for historical > reasons. There is no compelling need for me to learn them for the > purpose of writing my own code and so I haven't been using them. > It's only a matter for understanding other people's code. During > Racket Week and Racketcon, when I saw these functions being used, I > understood to the point of realizing that the point was to pull a > value out of whatever they were used on. I couldn't tell you which > value.
I still use the car/cdr congomerations. They are quite useful when parsing a list. -- hendrik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/20190718171503.vyzw6fd2be6f3gka%40topoi.pooq.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
