From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Shred" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: associative list won't append variable contents Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 05:18:25 GMT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138684944 8638 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 05:22:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 05:22:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 31 06:22:20 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F3ny1-00032K-0e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 06:22:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F3o10-0001Pz-GL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:25:18 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsmst01b.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr13.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!a389c68f!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.130.11.200 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Original-X-Trace: newssvr13.news.prodigy.com 1138684705 ST000 71.130.11.200 (Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:18:25 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:18:25 EST X-UserInfo1: FKPO@MONFJBYBTXXKRJFJFTBTR\B@GXLN@GZ_GYO^BSZUSAANVUEAE[YETZPIWWI[FCIZA^NBFXZ_D[BFNTCNVPDTNTKHWXKB@X^B_OCJLPZ@ET_O[G\XSG@E\G[ZKVLBL^CJINM@I_KVIOR\T_M_AW_M[_BWU_HFA_]@A_A^SGFAUDE_DFTMQPFWVW[QPJN Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:137303 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:32925 Archived-At: Hi, (setq car-0 foo-0) (setq cdr-0 foo-1) (setq file-list (append '((car-0 . cdr-0)) file-list)) I want the contents of car-0 and cdr-0 to be the actual car and cdr. Lisp creates ((car-0 . cdr-0)) not ((foo-0 . foo-1)) Shouldn't this work?