(append)

[Chris Maden <crism@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

8.5.3.10 of DSSSL says:

   (append list ...)
   
   Returns a list consisting of the elements of the first list
   followed by the elements of the other lists.
   
   EXAMPLE 35
[...]
   (append '(a) '(b c d))     =>   (a b c d)

So how come this:

(format-number-list (append (element-number-list (list "appendix"
                                                       "sect1")
                                                 (current-node))
                            (+ (element-number (ancestor "sect2"))
                               refentrys))
                    '("A"
                      "1"
                      "1")
                    ".")

causes Jade to return

jade:/usr/local/prod/sgml/dsssl/db2html.dsl:2436:53:E: 1st argument
for primitive "format-number-list" of wrong type: "(3 3 . 151)" not a
list

Now, I'm not sure why I'm getting "151", but I can worry about the
value of the number later.  I'm more concerned that (append) appears
to be creating a pair instead of a list.[*]  Am I doing something
obviously wrong?  Am I doing something not-so-obviously wrong?

(If you're wondering, refentrys is the number of <refentry>s that are
previous siblings of the current <sect2>, so that it they can be
numbered continuously.)

Thanks in advance,
Chris

[*] Yes, I know that a list is strictly a series of nested pairs.  In
this case, they don't seem to have nested properly.
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