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Re:The Background for CAR and CDR by lispm on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @06:10AM (#29712556)
you don't need them in the language standard. Common Lisp is an extensible language and you would use one of the libraries available.

> On the other hand, there are many cases where relying just on cons, car, cdr, and related functions results in hard-to-read, hard-to-change code.

That's why Common Lisp has structures and CLOS. One builds on top of those.

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