What You've Learned
In this chapter, we discussed the basic Lisp syntax. Along the way, you learned the following:
Parentheses in Lisp are there to keep the amount of syntax to a minimum.
Lists are created from cons cells.
You can create lists by making cons cells with the
cons
command.You can inspect the pieces of a list with
car
andcdr
.
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