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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: Table results doesn't work for dotted lists
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 10:13:48 +0100
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 (Lawrence Bottorff's message of "Tue, 24 Dec 2019 22:24:29 -0600")
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To: Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com>
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Hello,

Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> writes:

> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results table
> '(hline (hi) (there) hline)
> #+end_src
>
>
> #+RESULTS:
> |-------|
> | hi    |
> | there |
> |-------|
>
> but then :results table has no effect on this
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results table
> '(hline (hi . bye) (here . there) hline)
> #+end_src
>
> #+RESULTS:
> : (hline (hi . bye) (here . there) hline)

[...]

> Just wondering why it would distinguish between a trad list and
> a dotted list.

It's probably because no one bothered implementing support for
tabulating dotted lists.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou