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From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Setting up abbrev
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 20:40:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilnbbye3.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: YugFxuvTsaAcTLeR@tuxteam.de

tomas wrote:

>> Only a pair is a list as well ...
>
> But only in very restricted circumstances: when the pair's
> cdr is nil, i.e. when it is an one-element list.
>
> Otherwise it's an improper list...
>
> Unless, of course, you consider the list's head as "the
> list", in a pars pro toto way: then, a list is a pair whose
> cdr is a list.

A pair is a list with two elements.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-01 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-31 12:23 Setting up abbrev wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-31 13:08 ` Jean Louis
2022-08-01  3:06   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-01  6:04     ` Jean Louis
2022-08-01  7:42       ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found] ` <YuZ+ucBrwA9vOR/F@protected.localdomain-N8JMuQk----2>
2022-07-31 15:35   ` wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-31 16:40     ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-08-01  6:21       ` Jean Louis
2022-08-01  6:05     ` Jean Louis
2022-07-31 20:02 ` kf
2022-08-01  3:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-01 10:41   ` uzibalqa
2022-08-01 11:39     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-01 14:56       ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-08-01 15:14         ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-01 16:36           ` Drew Adams
2022-08-01 16:57             ` wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-08-01 18:36             ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-01 19:20               ` Drew Adams
2022-08-01 16:56       ` tomas
2022-08-01 18:40         ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-08-01 20:37           ` tomas
2022-08-01 11:33   ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-08-01 11:42     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-01 12:54       ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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