Home Articles FAQs XREF Games Software Instant Books BBS About FOLDOC RFCs Feedback Sitemap
irt.Org

dotted pair

You are here: irt.org | FOLDOC | dotted pair

<programming> The usual LISP syntax for representing a cons cell that is not a list. For example, the expression

	(cons 'foo 42)

returns a cons cell that is output as

	(foo . 42)

which represents a cons cell whose car is the symbol "foo" and whose cdr is the integer 42.

(2014-11-09)

Nearby terms: dot matrix printer « dot notation « dot pitch « dotted pair » dotted quad » double bucky » double-click

FOLDOC, Topics, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, ?, ALL

©2018 Martin Webb