Conns vs Cons - What's the difference?
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(conn)
The duty of directing a ship, usually used with the verb to have'' or '' to take and accompanied by the article "the."
To direct a ship; to superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer.
*1724 , Daniel Defoe,
*:“Ay,” says I, “you’ll allow me to steer, that is, hold the helm, but you’ll conn the ship, as they call it; that is, as at sea, a boy serves to stand at the helm, but he that gives him the orders is pilot.”
(computing) A data structure in LISP that is a pair of pointers, car and cdr, used mainly for lists.
(computing) To obtain a list from a cons or a nesting of conses; to prepend an element to a list by forming a cons of that element and the list; to obtain a list from a smaller one by repeated application of such kind of prepending.
(con)
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As verbs the difference between conns and cons
is that conns is (conn) while cons is (computing) to obtain a list from a cons or a nesting of conses; to prepend an element to a list by forming a cons of that element and the list; to obtain a list from a smaller one by repeated application of such kind of prepending or cons can be (con).As a noun cons is
or cons can be (computing) a data structure in lisp that is a pair of pointers, car and cdr, used mainly for lists.conns
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(head)conn
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Noun
(en noun)- The officer of the deck has the conn of the vessel; the captain took the conn when he reached the bridge.
Verb
(en verb)- The pilot conned the ship safely into the harbor.
cons
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Abbreviation of construct .Noun
(conses)Synonyms
* cons cellVerb
(es)- In addition to specifying the whole list at once using square brackets and commas, you can build them up piece by piece using the (:) operator. This process is often referred to as consing.
