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From: biagioni@unc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: smail pronounciation
Message-ID: <1010@unc.unc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 10:41:14 EST
Article-I.D.: unc.1010
Posted: Wed Feb 25 10:41:14 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Feb-87 07:36:35 EST
References: <667@rtech.UUCP> <1074@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> <486@sw1e.UUCP> <1277@beta.UUCP>
Reply-To: biagioni@unc.UUCP (Edoardo Biagioni)
Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
Lines: 11
Keywords: lisp car cdr caar cadr cdar cddr

In article <1277@beta.UUCP> hp@beta.UUCP (Akkana) writes:
>I knew I had joined the ranks of REAL Lisp programmers when I found out
>that "cdr" was pronounced "could-er" instead of "cooder" the way the
>books said.  (But how do you pronounce cadddadr?)

cad-ould-d-ad-er, of course. Comes from caddr (cald-ould-er, the
third element in a list) and cdadr (could-ad-er) which is not a very
useful selector. (can you say tail of second element in the list?).

Ed Biagioni		biagioni@cs.unc.edu 
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