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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: using setq to create lists based on other lists...
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2018 16:44:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lbw3pcm.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7CDB4794-7DD0-4585-9DBA-BA050AA845B8@gmail.com> (Jean-Christophe Helary's message of "Mon, 3 Dec 2018 00:34:31 +0900")

Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com> writes:

> > On Dec 2, 2018, at 23:40, Michael Heerdegen
> > <michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Apart from that, note that a list is identical to its first cons.
>
> I wish "Lists and Cons Cells" had something as plainly written as
> that.

"It says "Lists in Lisp are not a primitive data type; they are built up
from “cons cells”".  Doesn't that imply what I wrote?

> Although, I'm a bit confused. Do you mean "first cons cell" ?

Yes, "cons" is often used as abbreviation of "cons cell".


Michael.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-02 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2018-12-02 11:21 ` using setq to create lists based on other lists Barry Margolin
2018-12-02 11:51   ` Stephen Berman
2018-12-02 12:22     ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-12-02 13:08       ` Stephen Berman
2018-12-02 13:28         ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-12-02 14:40           ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-12-02 15:34             ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-12-02 15:44               ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2018-12-02 15:57                 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-12-02 15:00           ` Stephen Berman
2018-12-02 15:30             ` Jean-Christophe Helary
     [not found]             ` <mailman.5026.1543764670.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-12-04  9:00               ` Barry Margolin
2018-12-02 12:03   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
     [not found] <mailman.5042.1543777897.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-12-04  9:04 ` Barry Margolin
     [not found]   ` <(message>
     [not found]     ` <from>
     [not found]       ` <Barry>
     [not found]         ` <Margolin>
     [not found]           ` <on>
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     [not found]                   ` <2018>
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2018-12-04 13:56   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-05  1:07   ` Robert Thorpe
2018-12-05  2:32     ` Drew Adams
2018-12-05  6:45       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-12-05  8:00         ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-12-05  8:11           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-12-05 14:57         ` Drew Adams
     [not found]         ` <mailman.5218.1544021892.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-12-05 16:59           ` Barry Margolin
     [not found]     ` <mailman.5186.1543978155.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-12-05 16:50       ` Barry Margolin
     [not found]   ` <mailman.5145.1543931778.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-12-05 16:47     ` Barry Margolin
2018-12-02 10:53 Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-12-02 15:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-02 15:41   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-12-02 16:05     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-02 16:23       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-12-02 17:02         ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-02 17:21           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-12-02 19:11             ` Robert Thorpe
2018-12-02 23:44               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
     [not found]   ` <mailman.5028.1543765273.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-12-03 13:43     ` Rusi

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