Cont vs Cons - What's the difference?
cont | cons |
* 2010 , Margaret Hubert, The Complete Photo Guide to Knitting (page 68)
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(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 an abbreviation cont
is .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.As a verb 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).cont
English
Abbreviation
(Abbreviation) (head)- cont knitting across 2nd and 3rd needle of instep
cons
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(head)Etymology 2
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.
