Re: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ?

[PJ Weisberg]

On 12/7/10, Fren Zeee <frenzeee@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes it helped, but I cant honestly see the difference between
> (a . b)  <--- from cons
> and
> (a b)    <--- from list
>
> both seem to be dotted pair although the dot is implicit in the second.

No.  The first is a dotted pair.  The second is a list.  I guess you
*could* say a dot was implicit, but the "explicit" version would be

(a . (b . nil))

-PJ