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Re:CAR and CDR by mrottenkolber on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @05:02AM (#6767188)
Ironically in CL LAST does what UNIX tail does.
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Re:CAR and CDR by csmuk on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @05:03AM (#6767191)
Yeah which is where SBCL and me got into to a bad argument :)
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Re:CAR and CDR by mrottenkolber on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @05:10AM (#6767209)
You probably were looking for LAST1 (e.g. (first (last ...))).

But why SBCL? LAST should behave the same on all implementations.

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Re:CAR and CDR by csmuk on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @05:25AM (#6767246)
That's just the variety of CL that I used.
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