> taking an element from a collection by its key rather than excplicitly traveling node links using car and cadr Isn't that also the norm in Common Lisp? You c

> taking an element from a collection by its key rather than excplicitly traveling node links using car and cadr Isn't that also the norm in Common Lisp? You can do any convoluted thing you want, of course, but in my own code, I retrieve elements by key using e.g. 'getf' or 'gethash'. (I do agree that there are many naming warts.)