Re: Documentation for car and cdr

[David Kastrup]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> But only true lists have elements like those you write about, dotted
>> lists haven't.
>
> Which is why they are called dotted pairs.

(info "(elisp) Cons Cells")

[...]

   If the CDR of a list's last cons cell is some other value, neither
`nil' nor another cons cell, we call the structure a "dotted list",
since its printed representation would use `.'.  There is one other
possibility: some cons cell's CDR could point to one of the previous
cons cells in the list.  We call that structure a "circular list".


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