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Dotted Pairs

Usual dot and list notations for dotted pairs may be used in any combination on input. On output, they are written in the shortest possible form. For example

    ((a . b) . (c . d))
is printed as
    ((a . b)  c . d)
but may be written in both forms by the user. Also the expression (quote x) may be abbreviated as 'x where x is any S-expression.





Gokturk UCOLUK
Fri Nov 1 21:52:13 EET 1996