On 2023-10-30, at 10:17, Stephen Berman wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 07:00:36 +0100 Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I know that the "n-" prefix means that it is destructive. But why "n-"?
>> I also know that this comes from Common Lisp, but still -- why the
>> letter "n-"?
>>
>> TIA
On 2023-10-30, at 08:08, Drew Adams wrote:
> Googling tells me this:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4982732/what-word-is-abbreviated-by-n-in-names-of-destructive-lisp-functions
>
> which tells me this:
>
> https://gigamonkeys.com/book/they-called-it-lisp-for-a-reason-list-processing.htm
