On Wednesday, October 10, 2012, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
wrote:
> The difference, as far as I know, is that in the first method you can
> have multiple values per list (so something like (william "William"
> "White" "xx@xxxxxx.org")), whereas the dotted cons cell notation (the
> second one) only allows two atoms.

FYI, '(william "William" "White" "xx@xxxxxx.org") is exactly the same as
'(william . ("William" "White" "xx@xxxxxx.org"))

For that matter it's the same as '(william . ("William" . ("White" . ("
xx@xxxxxx.org" . nil)))).  A list is just a chain of cons cells.

-- 
-PJ

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