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"Jeffrey R.Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org.not> writes:

> On 2023-05-15 03:11, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Do you still have it?  Does is discuss association lists?  I'd call them
>> a normal part of LISP and it would be odd to force the associations to
>> be lists rather than pairs.  Does Siklóssy imply that an ASSOC list is a
>> list of lists of length 2, or does he not discuss them until the very
>> end?
>
> The Function ASSOC is discussed in Chapter 9 as an auxiliary function used
> by EVAL (Chapter 9 discusses the working of EVAL). It says
>
> ASSOC finds the value of a variable in the ALIST. The ALIST is a list of
> sublists of two SEXes each of the form (variable
> value-of-the-variable).

Thanks.  Is this a dialect made up for pedagogic purposes?  I don't know
of any practical LISP that went down this route.

>  Seems rather OT for c.l.a.

Yes, it is.  Happy to stop.  I was just curious about where your use of
terms originated and that now explained.

-- 
Ben.