>> On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:46:50 -0400, Oleg <oleg_inconnu@myrealbox.com> said:

> On Friday 30 August 2002 09:05 am, David Frese wrote:
>> >  (cadr '(1))
>> 
>> This shows that Lisp is safe, because it results in an error, and does
>> not return some value from out of nowhere (or does it).

> On Debian CMUCL it returns NIL.

In Common Lisp, the cdr of () is defined to be (). The car of () is also ().
I personally hate this definition :-(

# car x = car y, cdr x = cdr y, but x <> y
#                                if x = (()) and y = ()

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