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

[Chris Russell]

On 12/5/06, Larry Clapp <larry at theclapp.org> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> That makes sense; I was thinking about the execution of the code rather
than the parsing of it, but it's more appropriate as it stands given the
context.

Chris
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