Subject: Re: What the heck is ( . a ) ?
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 1997/09/12
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <5van8c$2eaeu@fido.asd.sgi.com>

Keith Wright <kwright@kwright.tiac.net> wrote:
+---------------
| If one were to define '( . a) to be anything other than another way
| of writting 'a, then you would be on soft ground.  This is obviously
| the Right Definition, if it is to be defined at all.
+---------------

Hunh?  Why isn't '( . a) ==> '(() . a)  a better Right Definition?
You got a pair there; you got a cdr with no car; no car ~= nil car; ...


-Rob

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