From 1777ba3dc87c62cf18cd178f2055369979907dc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 23:29:24 -0700
Subject: New function: tailp.

* eval.c (eval_init): Register tailp intrinsic.

* lib.c (tailp): New function.

* lib.h (tailp): Declared.

* txr.1: Documented.
---
 txr.1 | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+)

(limited to 'txr.1')

diff --git a/txr.1 b/txr.1
index 003fa4a3..6bb2fc08 100644
--- a/txr.1
+++ b/txr.1
@@ -19568,6 +19568,59 @@ is only a function, not an accessor;
 .code nthcdr
 forms do not denote places.
 
+.coNP Function @ tailp
+.synb
+.mets (tailp < object << list)
+.syne
+.desc
+The
+.code tailp
+function tests whether
+.meta object
+is a tail of
+.metn list .
+This means that
+.meta object
+is either
+.meta list
+itself, or else one of the
+.code cons
+cells of
+.meta list
+or else the terminating atom of
+.metn list .
+
+More formally, a recursive definition follows.
+If
+.meta object
+and
+.meta list
+are the same object (thus equal under the
+.code eq
+function) then
+.code tailp
+returns
+.codn t .
+If
+.meta list
+is an atom, and is not
+.metn object ,
+then the function returns
+.codn nil .
+Otherwise,
+.meta list
+is a
+.code cons
+that is not
+.meta object
+and
+.code tailp
+yields the same value as the
+.mono
+.meti "(tailp < object (cdr << list ))"
+.onom
+expression.
+
 .coNP Accessors @, caar @, cadr @, cdar @, cddr @ ... and @ cdddddr
 .synb
 .mets (caar << object )
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