Re: newbie exploring better ways

Look at it this way, there are three things that can happen when you
call this function:

If the list is empty, return the list.

If the car of the list is equal to the item, return the cdr of the
list

Else cons the car of the list with the result of calling the function
with the cdr of the list

How would that look in Lisp?

Which do you like better?
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