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From: Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
To: richard@rshann.plus.com
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Syntactic significance of dot
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:01:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sijj1iau.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1411409556.3458.145.camel@DebianBox.loc> (Richard Shann's message of "Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:12:36 +0100")

Richard Shann <richard@rshann.plus.com>:

> I've come across some (working) scheme code whose meaning I can't
> unravel. The problem is there is a "." character whose significance
> eludes me. The guile reference doesn't index this character, and I can
> only find references to it in writing literal pairs.

That's what it's for and nothing else, including in your example.

    (a b . c)

is equivalent to

    (a . (b . c))


Marko



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-22 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-22 18:12 Syntactic significance of dot Richard Shann
2014-09-22 18:32 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2014-09-22 18:38   ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2014-09-22 18:43   ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2014-09-22 21:01 ` Marko Rauhamaa [this message]
2014-09-23  8:49   ` Richard Shann

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