Re: basic help evaluating function in an alist

[WJ]

Matt Price wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> i'm trying to figure out what's wrong with this simple code:
> 
> (add-to-list 'my-winlist
>              '(guide . (selected-window) )
>              )
> (windmove-right)
> (select-window(cdr(assoc 'guide my-winlist)) )
> 
> So, what I would hope happens here is that I add an element (guide .
> (selected-window))  to an alist, but that the second element would be
> the actual window object in question, not the text string
> "(selected-window)".  Lisp puzzles me pretty thoroughly so I know I'm
> missing a very basic feature, but I can't figure it out by flipping
> through the info pages...  Thanks everyone!
> Matt

: (setq mylist '((b . 2)))
((b . 2))
: (add-to-list 'mylist (cons 'c (sqrt 3)))
((c . 1.7320508075688772) (b . 2))