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    JavaScript implementation of cons, car and cdr
  
        
  
    
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  | function cons(x, y) { | |
| return function(w) { return w(x, y) }; | |
| }; | |
| function car(z) { | |
| return z(function(x, y) { return x }); | |
| }; | |
| function cdr(z) { | |
| return z(function(x, y) { return y }); | |
| }; | |
| var list = cons(1, cons(2, null)); | |
| document.writeln( car(list)); | |
| document.writeln( car(cdr(list))); | |
| document.writeln( cdr(cdr(list))); | 
  
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const car = (arr) => {
return arr[0];
};
const cdr = (arr) => {
const [, ...a] = arr;
return a;
};
const cons = (a, list) => {
return [a, ...list];
};