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From: 7thSon@SLCS.SLB.COM (Chris Garrigues)
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Subject: Re: At Last!  The voice of Reason!
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    From: das@lanai.cs.ucla.edu
    Date: Mon, 15 Jan 90 19:06 CST
    
    Not literally an inconsistency, since "first" and "second" are etymologically
    unrelated to "one" and "two".  "Third" and "three" are related, of course, so
    one hopes that Dijkstra's lists are very short.

From the on-line documentation for my lisp machine.  I believe this is
verbatim from /Common Lisp the Language/ by Guy Steel.

       tenth list                                                  Function

       Returns the tenth element of list. tenth is equivalent to

            (nth 9 list)
       Example:

            (setq letters '(a b c d e f g h i j k l)) =>
            (A B C D E F G H I J K L)

            (tenth letters) => J


       For a table of related items: See the section "Functions for Extracting
       from Lists". 

There are similar functions for accessing the 1st through the 9th
elements of lists, and they are documented similarly.


Chris