Cyons vs Cons - What's the difference?
cyons | cons |
* ante'' 1722 : Edward Lisle, ''Observations in Husbandry , volume 2,
(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 nouns the difference between cyons and cons
is that cyons is plural of lang=en while cons is plural of lang=en.As a verb cons is
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.cyons
English
Noun
(head)page 274(1757 posthumous republication)
- Cyons grafted upon ?uckers are more di?po?ed to produce ?uckers than grafts on the main ?tocks do. Ev. 140.
Anagrams
*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.
