Re: Creating a list

[David Kastrup]

Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> At the moment I create a list with:
>>>       (setq ret-val (cons total-amount (cons current-amount ())))
>>> I thought about doing it with:
>>>       (setq ret-val (cons total-amount '(current-amount)))
>>>
>>> But then the second value is the string current-amount
>>
>> Wrong.  The _symbol_ current-amount.
>
> When evaluating I got:
>     (1570378.2570192777 current-amount)
> That is why I thought I got the string.

A string would have quote marks around it.

-- 
David Kastrup