• Denis Koroskin <2korden gmail.com> Jan 29 2009

Denis Koroskin <2korden gmail.com> writes:

Sean Kelly Wrote:

 head/last
 
 It seems fairly popular and doesn't cause any confusion with 'tail' if 
 we decide to use that later on.
 
 
 Sean


I don't think head/tail gives any confusion (it certainly doesn't to me).
I believe 'tail' (meaning 'everything but head') is misused in other languages,
the correct term for it is 'rest'.

head/tail - first and last elements
head/rest - first element and the rest.

Is there any ambiguity?