[Novalug] List test

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

You remember correctly. The quote turns it into an atom, which is not a 
list.

I realized that shortly after I hit the send key.

However, I believe that your two expressions are different. The fist 
looks at the symbol value, while the latter calls novalug as a function 
and tests the value it returns. And (listp '(novalug)) should do the trick.

JIM

On 7/7/2010 9:23 PM, Dave Aronson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 20:47, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd
> <JECottrell3 at comcast.net>  wrote:
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>> (listp 'novalug)
>> t
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> Wouldn't the quote turn it into a literal which would not therefore be
> a list?  (listp novalug) or (listp ('novalug)) would work fine.
>
> Or am I misremembering?  I haven't touched LISP in about 26 years....
>
> -Dave
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