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4 definitions found From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: cons /konz/ or /kons/ [from LISP] 1. vt To add a new element to a specified list, esp. at the top "OK, cons picking a replacement for the console TTY onto the agenda." 2. `cons up': vt To synthesize from smaller pieces: "to cons up an example". In LISP itself `cons' is the most fundamental operation for building structures. It takes any two objects and returns a `dot-pair' or two-branched tree with one object hanging from each branch. Because the result of a cons is an object, it can be used to build binary trees of any shape and complexity. Hackers think of it as a sort of universal constructor, and that is where the jargon meanings spring from From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: CONS {connection-oriented network service} From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: cons /konz/ or /kons/ [LISP, "construct"] A {Lisp} function which takes an element H and a list T and returns a new list whose head is H and whose tail is T. In {Lisp}, cons" is the most fundamental operation for building structures. It actually takes any two objects and returns a "{dotted-pair}" or two-branched tree with one object hanging from each branch. Because the result of a cons is an object, it can be used to build {binary tree}s of any shape and complexity. [{Jargon File}] From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: CONS Connection Oriented Networking Service
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