CONS

CONS

CONS, Connection-Oriented Network Service, is one of the two OSI network layer protocols, the other being CLNS . It is basically X.25, with a few adjustments.

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cons

Noun

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A data structure in LISP that is a pair of pointers, car and cdr, used mainly for lists.

Verb

  1. To obtain a list from a cons or a nesting of conses; to prepend 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.
    In addition to specifying the whole list at once using square brackets and commas, you can build them up piece by piece using the (:) operator. This process is often referred to as consing.

Verb (etymology 2)



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