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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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> In article <3BF052D3.ECEF3FF2@san.rr.com>, Darren New says...
> >
> >Ted Dennison wrote:
> >> there is better. "Font" and "Back" are pretty standard terminology for
list
>
> Hmmm. Reading this over, "Head" and "Tail" are actually more usual, aren't
they?

I don't know if it is a "ML" thing (Brian?) but a list of a tail
used to be the list that was left (possibly empty) after the head
was removed and not an element within a list.