Re: Documentation for car and cdr

[Miles Bader]

2006/1/29, Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden>:
> I am not sure what Lisp dialect you have in mind, but both in Elisp
> and in Common Lisp, a list is a Lisp object that is either a cons cell
> or the symbol nil and "cons cell" is synonymous with non-nil list.

You are confusing the concept of a list with the common-lisp "list" type.

A list as talked about by humans is an aggregate data-structure
composed of multiple primitive objects.

-Miles
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