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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)

  1. 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

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Questions about consed

What is consed the simple past and past participle of?
Consed is the simple past and past participle of cons.

Words near consed in the dictionary

  1. consecutive interpretation
  2. consecutive interpreting
  3. consecutively
  4. consecutiveness
  5. consecutives
  6. consed
  7. consegregate
  8. consegregated
  9. consenescence
  10. consenescency
  11. consense

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