What I was saying is that that is really unintuitive. Cons has a specific meaning and clojure redefines it creatively. That's not a good thing. If your function

What I was saying is that that is really unintuitive. Cons has a specific meaning and clojure redefines it creatively. That's not a good thing. If your function isn't cons than don't call it that. Also, lisp pairs are very useful.