<div dir="ltr"><div>If I evaluate this:</div><div><br></div><div>(list 'this '(is silly))</div><div><br></div><div>I get this:</div><div><br></div><div>'(this (is silly))</div><div><br></div><div>I just want to check I understand what is happening here.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>list always returns a proper list hence I see no dotted notation here.</div><div><br></div><div>The return value is quoted which means it is a symbol? But there are spaces so can it be a symbol? And in addition, list returns a proper list so it is a list? A symbolic list?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Or does the quote in returned just mean it is string data in the list?</div><div><br></div><div>The nested parentheses around is silly is indicating that this is a inner list - a list within a list? What is in the inner list? Two strings? One string made up of the characters i, s, space, s, i, l, l, y ?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I suppose the thing that confuses me the most is the idea of a symbol. There are no quotes around the textual information in the returned data so do I assume the text is not string data? If so are they symbols?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Please help clarify.</div></div>