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Re:Caramel: An OCaml for the Erlang VM by derefr on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:21PM (#26360906)
Yes; see https://hexdocs.pm/gleam_stdlib/gleam/list/. The syntax is [head, ..tail]

It'd be kind of silly to create a greenfield BEAM language that doesn't expose one of the most fundamental operations you can do in BEAM bytecode, and that every list-processing function ultimately relies upon :)

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Re:Caramel: An OCaml for the Erlang VM by devmunchies on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:45PM (#26361176)
> It'd be kind of silly to have a BEAM language that doesn't expose one of the most primitive operations you can do in the BEAM, that every list-processing function ultimately relies upon :)

Agree, which is why i was confused it wasn't in the tour I linked to in the Lists or Destructuring sections

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