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Re: [External] : menu-item uses no dot period before item-property-list


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: [External] : menu-item uses no dot period before item-property-list in examples
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2023 03:07:15 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

Drew Adams wrote:

> Yes, there is. And you've been told before that (a . (b c))
> is the same as (a b c).
>
> For simplicity, Lisp _printing_ removes the dot and parens:
> . (...). This is standard Lisp syntax convenience: we write
> (a b c) instead of (a . (b . (c . nil))). That's all there
> is to it.

You mean like this

  (equal '(a b c) '(a . (b . (c . nil))))

?

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