Manfred Knemeyer <NoSpam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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| What adjective describes a list whose elements are only atoms,
| no lists?
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AFAIK there is no standard term for that, but if (for whatever
weird reason) you need to talk about those a lot you might try
referring to it as "flat" or "flattened", by analogy to what
comes out of the common homework-assignment procedure "flatten"
[a depth-first tree walk which collects the leaves]...


-Rob

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