From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Creating a list Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:38:06 +0100 Organization: Decebal Computing Message-ID: <87k4xnge1t.fsf@Traian.DecebalComp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258616578 20562 80.91.229.12 (19 Nov 2009 07:42:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:42:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 19 08:42:51 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NB1fH-0000TL-9c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:42:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36613 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NB1fG-0000ih-Tg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:42:50 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XuCnUEAr1NOHEjnyhO0MIrlm3LU= Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.53.123.169 Original-X-Trace: 1258616287 news.xs4all.nl 22943 decebal/[::ffff:84.53.123.169]:19720 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174829 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:69903 Archived-At: At the moment I create a list with: (setq ret-val (cons total-amount (cons current-amount ()))) I thought about doing it with: (setq ret-val (cons total-amount '(current-amount))) But then the second value is the string current-amount instead of the value of current-amount. Is there a better way to build the list? At this moment it is not a problem, but when I want to build a list from 30 values ... -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof