From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Beginner question - designators Date: 1999/05/09 Message-ID: <3135234204518550@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 475798497 References: <7h30ja$amq$1@nntp2.atl.mindspring.net> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * "Nikon Sevast" | I looked at the documentation for make-array, and it mentions that the | dimension argument is a designator for a list of valid array dimensions. | Try as I may, I can't make sense of the definition for a designator. it means that (make-array 4 ...) and (make-array (list 4) ...) are functionally the same. a designator for a list can be a single element: list designator n. a designator for a list of objects; that is, an object that denotes a list and that is one of: a non-nil atom (denoting a singleton list whose element is that non-nil atom) or a proper list (denoting itself). #:Erik