Re: To be a list or not

[Bob Rogers]

   From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
   Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:18:34 +0100

   . . .

   However (sequencp '(prop . val)) returns t.

   What I wanted to know was the recommended way to check if something
   is a cons cell, but not a sequence, ie something like '(prop . val).

This is called an "improper list"; you could check for it thus:

        (defun proper-list-p (x)
          (and (listp x)
               (null (cdr (last x)))))

But of course, this is O(N), and would not even terminate for circular
lists, which is why the predicates are designed not to go to all that
trouble.

   FWIW, format.el defines a format-proper-list-p that is equivalent.

                                        -- Bob Rogers
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