This is why Arc is better than newLISP. The only reason I can think of for this is that newLISP is trying to protect newbies from the actual structure of lists by telling them that cons adds an element to the beginning of a list, car gets the first element of a list, and cdr gets the rest of the list.
Arc doesn't try to protect people from these kinds of things. It's not like we can't handle the real meaning of cons.
