From: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs <Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 20:59:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimqUHODexkgOgOZPfpqARdi3T7PB-fHkshO+3WK@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinMVpNJCmNL66YUBKqKQQyAkmR0fRDVuZS5KPzn@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/7/10, Fren Zeee <frenzeee@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes it helped, but I cant honestly see the difference between
> (a . b) <--- from cons
> and
> (a b) <--- from list
>
> both seem to be dotted pair although the dot is implicit in the second.
No. The first is a dotted pair. The second is a list. I guess you
*could* say a dot was implicit, but the "explicit" version would be
(a . (b . nil))
-PJ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-08 4:59 UTC|newest]
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2010-12-06 14:13 ` How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ? Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-12-06 15:41 ` Fren Zeee
2010-12-07 14:18 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-12-07 17:10 ` Fren Zeee
2010-12-06 19:45 ` Fren Zeee
2010-12-06 19:46 ` Fren Zeee
[not found] ` <AANLkTikMQzfqkw9i08aptR2v+4nGRh9ZQSODQunLrEXR@mail.gmail.com>
2010-12-07 7:59 ` PJ Weisberg
2010-12-07 15:14 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-07 16:55 ` PJ Weisberg
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[not found] ` <AANLkTinYGcW+qEW+b_jXOexu+O=um1C+MdVn6n5wp8+Q@mail.gmail.com>
2010-12-07 21:27 ` Fwd: Fwd: " Fren Zeee
[not found] ` <CEDF15DC-09E2-4983-8526-9E3A8924B71C@mit.edu>
[not found] ` <AANLkTinMVpNJCmNL66YUBKqKQQyAkmR0fRDVuZS5KPzn@mail.gmail.com>
2010-12-08 4:59 ` PJ Weisberg [this message]
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[not found] ` <AANLkTin_QtE=UBQ+R4fFZUYk1EGOkBnF3Wxchn-7DHV8@mail.gmail.com>
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[not found] ` <87lj3xrqz1.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
2010-12-12 20:55 ` Fren Zeee
2010-12-13 4:39 ` Miles Bader
2010-12-13 19:57 ` Fren Zeee
2010-12-13 19:58 ` Fren Zeee
2010-12-13 20:45 ` David Kastrup
2010-12-14 0:13 ` Fren Zeee
2010-12-14 1:20 ` Fren Zeee
2010-12-07 14:09 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-12-07 17:11 ` Fren Zeee
2010-12-07 21:10 ` PJ Weisberg
2010-12-08 1:26 ` Fren Zeee
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2010-12-06 5:09 ` Fren Zeee
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