< Common Lisp < Reference

car, along with cdr, is one of the basic building blocks of Common Lisp which are used to build cons cells.

The car operator, when applied to a list, returns the first element of that list. For example:

(car (list 1 2 3 4 5))
1

It can be replaced by first function [1] :

 (first (list 1 2 3 4 5))
1

References

  1. ↑ Accessor FIRST at CLHS

See also

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