*-unpacking (Re: Fun with fancy slicing)

[David Eppstein]

In article <Jd7fb.484435$cF.170532 at rwcrnsc53>,
 "David C. Fox" <davidcfox at post.harvard.edu> 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?

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