Statement (list A: 1) does not work

[Cecil Westerhof]

I read that with '(list a: 1)' you can make a property list. I tried
this with clisp (2.39), but I got:
*** - READ uit #<INPUT CONCATENATED-STREAM #<INPUT STRING-INPUT-STREAM> #<IO TERMINAL-STREAM>>: er is geen package met naam "A"
Mogelijkheden om opnieuw te beginnen:
ABORT :R1 ABORT

What am I doing wrong?

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[jos...@lisp.de]

(list :a 1)

[Cecil Westerhof]

"jos...@corporate-world.lisp.de" <jos...@lisp.de> writes:

> On 17 Dez., 11:48, Cecil Westerhof <Ce...@decebal.nl> wrote:
>> I read that with '(list a: 1)' you can make a property list. I tried
>> this with clisp (2.39), but I got:
>>     *** - READ uit #<INPUT CONCATENATED-STREAM #<INPUT STRING-INPUT-STREAM> #<IO TERMINAL-STREAM>>: er is geen package met naam "A"
>>     Mogelijkheden om opnieuw te beginnen:
>>     ABORT          :R1      ABORT
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>

> (list :a 1)

I did not look right. This is the way to work. Thanks.

[Tim X]

Cecil Westerhof <Ce...@decebal.nl> writes:

> I read that with '(list a: 1)' you can make a property list. I tried
> this with clisp (2.39), but I got:
> *** - READ uit #<INPUT CONCATENATED-STREAM #<INPUT STRING-INPUT-STREAM> #<IO TERMINAL-STREAM>>: er is geen package met naam "A"
> Mogelijkheden om opnieuw te beginnen:
> ABORT :R1 ABORT
>
> What am I doing wrong?

Possibly a touch of dyslexia :)

It should be (list :a 1) not (list a: 1). The error is telling you clisp
couldn't understand what it read. It thinks the A: is part of a
reference to something in a package called A, but there is no package
caled A.

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