Re: (append)

[Graydon Hoare <graydon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Chris Maden wrote:

you're doing this:

(append (something-that-makes-a-list) some-number)

some-number is not a list, it's a pointer to a cell holding a number. A
list is a pointer to a cell holding a pair. You have to construct the pair
and put you number in the car field. You want to do:

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

-graydon




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