hi feilong, all,

> Why is the length of (quote '(1 2 3)) 2 not 3.

> Just now i have tried to get the length of (length (quote quote)),
> but i get the error message. 

while i think it is a good thing that some German universities have a
programming class in Common-Lisp, i would prefer it if their students
solved their exercises themselves, and we could reserve this list for
the discussion of matters specific to Allegro CL.  there is a general
usenet group `comp.lang.lisp' that might be better suited for the type 
of questions you have been raising.

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