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Cadr vs Cdr - What's the difference?

cadr | cdr | Derived terms |

Cdr is a derived term of cadr.

Cdr is a related term of cadr.



In computing terms the difference between cadr and cdr

is that cadr is car of the cdr in LISP. The second element in a list while cdr is the second part of a cons in LISP. The rest of a list when the first element is removed.

As an initialism CDR is

call detail record: a computer record representing a unit of traffic handled by a telephone exchange.

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

    cdr

    English

    Initialism

    (Initialism) (head)
  • : a computer record representing a unit of traffic handled by a telephone exchange.
  • common data rate
  • content of decrement of register: cdr is a Lisp (and Scheme) instruction, that has become a verb in the MIT: "to cdr down" means to evaluate the items of a list one by one.
  • (ophthalmology)
  • Anagrams

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