From: P M
Subject: Re: I can not find a word better than "CAR"
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:06:49 +0000
Message-ID: <6c4ee0b5-a8b5-42ae-9f1d-d5c5b9d80ea1@m19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>

On 14 Giu, 20:48, ····@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:
>   [ »CAR« and »CDR« ]

Just stay with CAR and CDR, and find some reasonable abbreviation by
yourself:

CAR - cons antecedent referrer
CDR - cons descendent referrer

My English is not so good, and it's only a first try.
Your turn!

From: Adlai
Subject: Re: I can not find a word better than "CAR"
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:15:38 +0000
Message-ID: <dc80f0cb-5f36-40f4-be63-112f1363d398@f19g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>

On Jun 15, 8:06 pm, P M <········@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 Giu, 20:48, ····@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:
>
> >   [ »CAR« and »CDR« ]
>
> Just stay with CAR and CDR, and find some reasonable abbreviation by
> yourself:
>
> CAR - cons antecedent referrer
> CDR - cons descendent referrer
>
> My English is not so good, and it's only a first try.
> Your turn!

How about...
Contents of Address part of Register
Contents of Decrement part of Register

Check A Register
Check Different Register

Or some other car/cdr variants:
WIH // WIT (What is here? What is there?)

They compose to nice things like WITHTTHT, and jive nicely with the
name of our language -- LITHP (a language useful for protheththing
lithtth).