Re: 'length' function for lists and cons cells?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.22618.1363919920.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> wrote:

> "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
> 
> > I don't understand what you want to do.
> 
> well, avoid the errors I get when mapping alists with true lists and
> cons cells as elements with functions like 'lenght of 'cdr etc. 

Don't give dotted lists to functions that are supposed to map over them 
in the first place.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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