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Hattuari wrote:
 > Suppose I have a collection of key values pairs as follows:
 >
 > char  c
 > short s
 > int   i
 > long  l
 >
 > I want to put them in a property list.  I can do this:

Why a property list instead of an association list?

(setq type-map
       '((char . c)
         (short . s)
         (int . i)
         (long . l)))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers