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Are you talking about Either types? OCaml and Haskell at least both call car and cdr fst and snd respectively, but they're rarely used.
As for left and right as names, I don't think they're any worse than car and cdr, I just don't think they're substantially better.
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Are you talking about Either types? OCaml and Haskell at least both call car and cdr fst and snd respectively, but they're rarely used.
As for left and right as names, I don't think they're any worse than car and cdr, I just don't think they're substantially better.