Re: Appending lists

[Emanuel Berg]

tomas wrote:

> (setq thing (copy-sequence '(one two three four five six)))
> (setq thang (cddr thing))
>
> thang => (three four five six)
>
> (nreverse thing) => (six five four three two one)
>
> thing => (one)
>
> thang => (three two one)
>   ; now this is what I was after. Who the heck "changed my
>   ; variable!?" Who is General Failure and why is he reading
>   ; my disk?

Well, let's see, `nreverse' has updated the data without
setting the variables to whatever desired values they should
take so what is left is the variables reference to the first
data item (the car), after that tho 1 doesn't have a cdr
anymore and 3 has '(2 1), not '(4 5 6).

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