When CANNOT use 'first'/'rest' in place of 'car'/'cdr'?

seberino_at_spawar.navy.mil
Date: 02/24/05


Date: 23 Feb 2005 21:46:22 -0800

If I'm not mistaken, 'first' and 'rest' seem like modern user friendly
replacements for 'car' and 'cdr'.

Is it true that car and cdr are only in Common LISP to be able
to run ancient LISP code?

Is there any time I cannot use 'first' and 'rest' instead?/

Chris



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