*-unpacking (Re: Fun with fancy slicing)

[David Eppstein]

In article <22cfb.159311$hE5.5365335 at news1.tin.it>,
 Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:

> David Eppstein wrote:
> 
> >> In the mean time, it isn't too hard to write a function which does this:
> >> 
> >>      def first_rest(x):
> >>          return x[0], x[1:]
> > 
> > Shouldn't that be called cons?
> 
> Hmmm, feels more like the 'reverse' of a cons to me -- takes a list
> and gives me the car and cdr...

Well, but it returns an object composed of a car and a cdr, which is 
exactly what a cons is...

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David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science