From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from netcomsv.netcom.com ([163.179.1.13]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <2062>; Wed, 15 Sep 1993 23:56:00 -0400 Received: from netapp.UUCP by netcomsv.netcom.com with UUCP (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19016; Wed, 15 Sep 93 11:31:24 PDT Received: from ghoti.netapp.com by netapp.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11377; Wed, 15 Sep 93 11:29:20 PDT Received: by ghoti.netapp.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09696; Wed, 15 Sep 93 11:29:11 PDT Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 14:29:11 -0400 From: byron@ghoti.netapp.com (Byron Rakitzis) Message-Id: <9309151829.AA09696@ghoti.netapp.com> To: malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: list operators >What I really do miss in rc is orthogonality in list operators. > There's a left shift "shift [n]", but no right shift. Hm. I think you could make the same argument about lisp. There is no way to shift right, other than by applying rev, cdr, rev. What is wrong with defining a function in rc to do this for you?