Re: Creating a list

[Cecil Westerhof]

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

>> Off course.
>
> I think you mean "of course".

English is not my first language. I'll try to be more correct.


>> But I have a few questions on my mind.
>> - Why is the first shown as value and the second as _symbol_?
>
> Because you quoted the list containing the symbol, so it wasn't 
> evaluated.

Okay, thanks. At the moment it is not important, because I now work with
list instead off with cons, but how would I get it evaluated?


>> - current-amount is a local variable. How is it possible that the symbol
>>   is still defined?
>
> Symbols are permanent, only bindings are local.

Thanks again.

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