Re: Append object to list - Question

Subject: Re: Append object to list - Question
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1998/10/02
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3116342324644208@naggum.no>

* "Dom. Early" <Dom.Early@usa.net> [edited]
| Just to make it a bit clearer, is there a function/macro that produces
| the same output as
| 
| (defun better-append (elt alist)
|   (append (list elt) alist)))

  CONS does that.  also see PUSH if you want to store the value back into a
  variable.  (PUSH is a macro, not a function.)

  incidentally, an ALIST is a list of cons cells, the car of each being a
  key and the cdr the value _associated_ with it.  the A in ALIST stands
  for Association.  LIST is a perfectly valid variable name.  (note that
  ELT is a function's name, too.)

#:Erik