[Axiom-developer] Re: severe (!) bug in normalize

[Martin Rubey]

Waldek Hebisch <address@hidden> writes:

> Martin Rubey wrote:
> > what does
> > 
> > ll := [k, :ll]
> > 
> > do? I have never seen that before, although grep yields some hits.

> This just builds list with head 'k' and tail 'll'.  The colon means that we
> want to "insert" a list -- without colon we would get a two element list,
> having (value of) 'll' as as the second element.

So I guess it really should be replaced with cons(k, ll) since ":" is not
defined as a spad function.


Martin