Re: Appending lists

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

henri-biard wrote:

>> Looks - bad.
>
> Now I am really getting wound up !
>
> Should I use (append city district) or (list city district) ?

Ha, it is difficult to say in this case :)

But both are easy to understand and very common so you should
know both anyway, then just use what works for you, I mean
that's one way to describe programming even, first collect
knowledge, then use you instinct/intuition to put it to good
use...

> Using defvar seemed good enough for me. 
>
> Anyway, concatenating all the arguments in "append" make the
> result a list.

C-h f append RET

for example to learn whet it does and what the interface is.
Do that for every function you come by, basically, that has
a short name. Because chances are it is a pretty
fundamental/common/useful building block of the language...

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