|  | ANSI Common Lisp  14 Conses  14.2 Dictionary of Conses 
 
 Class Precedence List:
cons,
list,
sequence,
t
Description:
A cons is a compound object having two components,
called the car and cdr. These form a dotted pair.
Each component can be any object.
 
Compound Type Specifier Kind:
Specializing.
Compound Type Specifier Syntax:
(cons [car-typespec [cdr-typespec]])
Compound Type Specifier Arguments:
car-typespec - a type specifier,
		    or the symbol *.
  The default is the symbol *.
cdr-typespec - a type specifier,
		    or the symbol *.
  The default is the symbol *.
 
Compound Type Specifier Description:
This denotes the set of conses 
whose car is constrained to be of type car-typespec and
whose cdr is constrained to be of type cdr-typespec.
(If either car-typespec or cdr-typespec is *,
 it is as if the type t had been denoted.)
 
See Also:
Section 2.4.1 Left-Parenthesis,
Section 22.1.3.5 Printing Lists and Conses
Allegro CL Implementation Details:
 None. |