Cdr
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkʊdə/, /ˈkʊdɚ/
Origin
Acronym of contents of the decrement part of register number. Note that it was based on original hardware and has no meaning today.
Noun
Image:Cons-cells.svg|thumb|Diagram for the list (42 69 613). The car of the first cons is 42, and thecdr
(plural cdrs)- (computing) The second part of a cons in LISP. The rest of a list when the first element is removed.
- Matt Kaufmann, Panagiotis Manolios, and J Strother Moore, Computer-aided reasoning: an approach, 2000 :The elements of a list are the successive cars along the "cdr chain." That is, the elements are the car, the car of the cdr, the car of the cdr of the cdr, etc.