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Re: Why is `nreverse' called `nreverse'?
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Per Starbäck |
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Re: Why is `nreverse' called `nreverse'? |
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Mon, 30 Oct 2023 07:32:48 +0100 |
The N- prefix for destructive functions is indeed present in Common
Lisp, but it goes further back than that. It is so in Maclisp, which
both Common Lisp and GNU Emacs Lisp have taken a lot from.
(If it also existed in lisps prior to Maclisp I don't know.) Pitman's
"The Revised Maclisp Manual" doesn't explain the N-. I guess it may
have come from NCONC.
Den mån 30 okt. 2023 kl 07:01 skrev Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>:
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> Hi all,
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> I know that the "n-" prefix means that it is destructive. But why "n-"?
> I also know that this comes from Common Lisp, but still -- why the
> letter "n-"?
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> TIA,
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> --
> Marcin Borkowski
> http://mbork.pl
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