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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "The starting list count" ?????
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 19:55:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YdNUoKO7CiLkcWZk@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r19ozjiq.fsf@igel.home>

Hello, Andreas.

On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 20:50:05 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Jan 03 2022, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> > I might have understood it now.  I think (1 . #1) refers to:

> This is a single cons.

Yes.  It is surely nonsensical, since it is referring to #1 in a list
structure with only one element.

> >                        -----------------    ---
> >                        |               |    | |
> >                        |               v    v |
> > -----------------------+--------     ---------+-----------------------  
> > |               |      |       |     |        |       |              |      
> > |               |      |       |     |        |       |              |
> > |		|      |       |     |        |       |              |
> > |      1	|      |       |     |        |       |     nil      |
> > |		|              |     |                |              |
> > |		|              |     |                |              |
> > |		|              |     |                |              |
> > --------------------------------     ---------------------------------

> This is a picture of two conses, which prints as (1 #1).

> -- 
> Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
> GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510  2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1
> "And now for something completely different."

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-03 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-03 17:49 "The starting list count" ????? Alan Mackenzie
2022-01-03 18:00 ` Robin Tarsiger
2022-01-03 18:33   ` Andreas Schwab
2022-01-03 18:59     ` Robin Tarsiger
2022-01-03 19:24       ` Andreas Schwab
2022-01-03 19:36       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-03 18:54   ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-01-03 19:26     ` Andreas Schwab
2022-01-03 18:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-03 19:21   ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-01-03 19:50     ` Andreas Schwab
2022-01-03 19:55       ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2022-01-03 20:38     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-03 20:58       ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-03 21:03       ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-01-03 21:15         ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-03 21:33           ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-01-04  0:43             ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-03 18:13 ` Andreas Schwab

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