Re: member returns list

[Emanuel Berg]

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> FYI, all those names were inherited from Maclisp.
> The q at the end of the names reflects that they use
> eq as the comparison function.

Ha ha, cool!

> Conversely, the functions that use equal have long
> names like delete, member, remove. The consistency
> is that the fully-spelled-out list functions use the
> fully-spelled-out comparison.

What?! :O

Or did you make that up just now?

If not, do you have more such Lisp secrets to share?

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