From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: PJ Weisberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ? Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 20:59:54 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87lj43at0i.fsf@ambire.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291784429 24493 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 05:00:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 05:00:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 06:00:25 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQC8f-0007mc-0j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 06:00:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42216 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQC8e-000217-Da for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33092 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQC8E-00020k-Tg for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:59:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQC8D-00063Y-Sl for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:59:58 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpauth21.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.165.38]:52748) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQC8D-00063N-JS for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:59:57 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 3915 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2010 04:59:55 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (209.85.216.41) by smtpauth21.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.38) with ESMTP; 08 Dec 2010 04:59:55 -0000 Original-Received: by qwa26 with SMTP id 26so802074qwa.0 for ; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:59:54 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.224.45.209 with SMTP id g17mr6849967qaf.21.1291784394458; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:59:54 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.220.176.136 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 20:59:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75546 Archived-At: On 12/7/10, Fren Zeee 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