From: [Invalid-From-Line]
Subject: howto setf a variable from a defined list?
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 19:25:21 +0000
Message-ID: <B_ZOa.223170$V9.19370142@amsnews02.chello.com>

i don't seem to know how to read from a defined list, i'm new to this...
example:
(setf *my-list* (12,12 13,13 14,14 etc))
how do i setf *my-item-list* to become "12,12 13,13 14,14 etc"

thanks, Henk

From: Adam Warner
Subject: Re: howto setf a variable from a defined list?
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 22:45:33 +0000
Message-ID: <pan.2003.07.09.22.45.31.211107@consulting.net.nz>

Hi j.boonstr,

> i don't seem to know how to read from a defined list, i'm new to this...
> example:
> (setf *my-list* (12,12 13,13 14,14 etc))
> how do i setf *my-item-list* to become "12,12 13,13 14,14 etc"
> 
> thanks, Henk

Please think further and then post your question again.

You are so new to Lisp that you don't even know how to represent a
list (which is an important first step for being able to build one).
You appear to want to create a nested list that looks like this:
((12 12) (13 13) (14 14))

One way to construct this is using the LIST operator:
(list (list 12 12) (list 13 13) (list 14 14))

Now you know this try constructing a question using the correct notation
that also makes sense. Why did you ask to turn "12,12 13,13 14,14 etc"
into "12,12 13,13 14,14 etc"? They look similar to me (and I doubt you
were trying to construct the string "12,12 13,13 14,14 etc").

Regards,
Adam