Re: "The starting list count" ?????

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jan 03 2022, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> I might have understood it now.  I think (1 . #1) refers to:

This is a single cons.

>                        -----------------    ---
>                        |               |    | |
>                        |               v    v |
> -----------------------+--------     ---------+-----------------------  
> |               |      |       |     |        |       |              |      
> |               |      |       |     |        |       |              |
> |             |      |       |     |        |       |              |
> |      1      |      |       |     |        |       |     nil      |
> |             |              |     |                |              |
> |             |              |     |                |              |
> |             |              |     |                |              |
> --------------------------------     ---------------------------------

This is a picture of two conses, which prints as (1 #1).

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