HLL and misa...

[garth zenie]

On Sun, 18 Jun 1995 18:58:20 +0200  Rainer Blome wrote:

> discussion?  i somewhat lost track of who has got or will get what message.

me too.  done.  pretty soon i will tell you the address of the misa
list and misa development talk will go there.  discussion relevent to
tunes will go here of course.

>   o and i use `prepend', when i want to prepend an element to a list.  that
>     makes the code independent of the implementation of lists.
>     (i've always tried to use first and rest instead of car and cdr.  even
>     my lisp-teacher had trouble justifying these names.  he said `contents
>     of address register' and `contents of decrement (descent?) register' is
>     that right?)

yep, that is right.  i find myself doing the same thing.  i think that
using car and cdr is morally wrong.

-- garth