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Comment by codr7

7 months ago

I've flipped that idea around in a few of my own language designs, where pairs are the central feature and lists are just pairs with pair cdrs. Works fine from what I can see.

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liontwist  7 months ago

Yes pairs is the 1980s lisp design, but it’s not good for modern caches. Both obviously work.

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