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From: uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: uzibalqa via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
	<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Determine whether a list is an alist
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 14:42:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <WKQjlXM3FCjJIzAyS_AsbtFVG9pSUaG7XrS1tccT0DKUq1vYWf6-sIYejuOK5to-1Praf4-GFibzd-IqH73OX4FEs6SRv8LUKA-LoGFyIVo=@proton.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CO6PR10MB54738A0301F1CAEBA6978502F337A@CO6PR10MB5473.namprd10.prod.outlook.com>

------- Original Message -------
On Friday, July 14th, 2023 at 2:31 AM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:


> > Is there some test that determines whether a list is an alist?
> 
> 
> Every list is an alist.

The manual distinguishes an alist as a list of cons cells called associations - where
the CAR of each cons cell is the key, and the CDR is the associated value.





      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-07-13 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-13 10:40 Determine whether a list is an alist uzibalqa
2023-07-13 14:31 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-07-13 14:40   ` Platon Pronko
2023-07-13 15:40     ` Drew Adams
2023-07-13 15:44       ` Drew Adams
2023-07-13 15:49       ` Platon Pronko
2023-07-13 15:56         ` Drew Adams
2023-07-13 15:57       ` uzibalqa
2023-07-13 16:06         ` Platon Pronko
2023-07-13 16:14           ` Drew Adams
2023-07-13 16:07         ` Drew Adams
2023-07-13 16:12           ` Robert Pluim
2023-07-13 16:16             ` Drew Adams
2023-07-13 15:59       ` Drew Adams
2023-07-13 14:42   ` uzibalqa [this message]

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