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by bsder 2026 days ago
I believe that lists are generally defined in the "Lisp" standards as a set of cons pairs terminated by nil.

This makes things a lot harder than they need to be--you effectively MUST process lists by recursion as you don't know you have a list until you hit that far right "nil".

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Good point, they are actually specified so both in common lisp and scheme