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Implementing Lisp `cons`, `car`, and `cdr` in Python
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| # Was watching this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymsbTVLbyN4&t=3749s) and Abelson was talking about how you could just make a cons cell with a lambda. Remembered Python had lambdas (although they're one-line lambdas smh) and figured "why not" | |
| def cons(a, b): | |
| return lambda x: a if (x == 1) else b | |
| def car(cell): | |
| return cell(1) | |
| def cdr(cell): | |
| return cell(2) |
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