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Cadr vs Cader - What's the difference?

cadr | cader |

As a noun cadr

is (computing) car of the cdr in lisp the second element in a list.

As a verb cader is

to fall.

cadr

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (computing) Car of the cdr in LISP. The second element in a list.
  • * Matt Kaufmann, Panagiotis Manolios, and J Strother Moore, Computer-aided reasoning: an approach , 2000 :
  • If we let x denote the tree (1 2 3), then the car of x is 1, the cdr of x is (2 3), the cadr of x is 2, the caddr of x is 3, and the cdddr of x is nil.

    Derived terms

    * caddr

    cader

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
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