cons

1. pluralplural of con

plural conses

1. computerA data structure in Lisp that is a pair of pointers, car and cdr, used mainly for lists.

   Synonyms: cons cell

present singular third person conses · participle present consing · participle past consed · past consed

1. computingTo obtain a list from a cons or a nesting of conses; to prepend an element to a list by forming a cons of that element and the list; to obtain a list from a smaller one by repeated application of such kind of prepending.

   This version of length arises naturally from the recursive definition of a list: “a list is either the empty list or an element consed onto another list.”

   1992, Peter Norvig, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 62

1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of con

1. pluralplural of CON