szymon  <szymon@dev.null> wrote:
+---------------
| ; newbie way to build a dot-list :] i (know about `list*')
| [1]>  (prog1 #1='(1 2 3) (rplacd (last #1#) 'end))
| (1 2 3 . END)
+---------------

Newbie might find it helpful [as part of the path to becoming non-newbie]
to read the CLHS on the prohibitions against modifying literal program data,
and then perhaps write it this way:

   > (let ((x (list 1 2 3)))
       (rplacd (last x) 'end)
       x)

   (1 2 3 . END)
   >


-Rob

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