cons (third-person singular simple presentconses,present participleconsing,simple past and past participleconsed)
(programming) To obtain alist from a cons or a nesting of conses; toprepend an element to a list by forming a cons of that element and the list; to obtain a list from a smaller one by repeated application of such kind of prepending.
1992, Peter Norvig,Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Morgan Kaufmann,→ISBN,page62:
This version oflength arises naturally from the recursive definition of a list: “a list is either the empty list or an elementconsed onto another list.”
