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Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:

> One thing that I noticed is that my `find-if' causes an infinite loop,
> when applied to a recursive (?) list, à la:

Many list functions exhibit strange behavior when applied to
non-lists.  The data structure you show is a non-list: the last cdr
pointer of a list should be nil.

I wouldn't worry about it too much.
-- 
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