consed
consed is the simple past and past participle of cons.
Meaning of cons
Verb
cons (third-person singular simple present conses, present participle consing, simple past and past participle consed)
- To obtain a list from a cons or a nesting of conses; to prepend an element to a list by forming a cons of that element and the list; to obtain a list from a smaller one by repeated application of such kind of prepending.
- This version of length arises naturally from the recursive definition of a list: “a list is either the empty list or an element consed onto another list.”1992, Peter Norvig, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 62
Questions about consed
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- Consed is the simple past and past participle of cons.
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