Drawback vs Cons - What's the difference?
drawback | cons |
A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.
A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.
(computing) A data structure in LISP that is a pair of pointers, car and cdr, used mainly for lists.
(computing) 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.
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As nouns the difference between drawback and cons
is that drawback is a disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away while cons is plural of lang=en.As a verb cons is
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.drawback
English
Noun
(en noun)- Poor fuel economy is a common drawback among larger vehicles.
Anagrams
*cons
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(head)Etymology 2
Abbreviation of construct .Noun
(conses)Synonyms
* cons cellVerb
(es)- 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.