Re: linked list rewrite

Neil Conway wrote:
> On 23-Mar-04, at 7:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > No, lcons is one of the names that I think we should stick with on
> > historical grounds.  It's widely used in the backend and it has the
> > right connotations for anyone who's ever used Lisp.
> 
> I think it has exactly the *wrong* connotations: the name suggests that 
> it creates a new cons cell (along with the ensuing implications about 
> performance and the internal implementation of the list), which is no 
> longer the case.
> 
> How about lprepend()? That allows for some symmetric with lappend().

Wow, I like that one!

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