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 racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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.
