From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Append object to list - Question Date: 1998/10/02 Message-ID: <3116342324644208@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 397124105 References: mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * "Dom. Early" [edited] | Just to make it a bit clearer, is there a function/macro that produces | the same output as | | (defun better-append (elt alist) | (append (list elt) alist))) CONS does that. also see PUSH if you want to store the value back into a variable. (PUSH is a macro, not a function.) incidentally, an ALIST is a list of cons cells, the car of each being a key and the cdr the value _associated_ with it. the A in ALIST stands for Association. LIST is a perfectly valid variable name. (note that ELT is a function's name, too.) #:Erik