[cl-faq] cl-faq Digest, Vol 9, Issue 1

[Larry Clapp]

On 2006-12-05, Chris Russell wrote:
>> [1] http://www.theclapp.org/lisp/lispfaq/faq.html#s2q5
>>
> This is probably nitpicking, but shouldn't the arrows on the tree go
> the other way around? As in we put 1 and 2 into * which we put into
> +  ?
>
> I'm sure someone is going to make a case for the arrows going the
> current way now ;) .

I just re-used the diagram from a previous question.

The arrows nicely represent how conses actually work, though, CAR on
the left, CDR on the right (modulo the NILs at the end), so I'd just
as soon keep them.

-- L