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From: Natacha Kerensikova <lithiumcat@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: S-expression I/O in Ada
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On Aug 12, 9:59=A0pm, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> In reality, an S-Expression (a "cons pair" in Lisp parlance) can indeed
> not have three elements; the notation (a b c) is, really, shorthand for
> (a (b c)); I was keen to implement that in my parser. =A0See
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression#Definition

According to that page, cons pairs are noted with an extra dot, like
(x . y), right? So (a b c) would be (a . (b . (c . nil))), right?
Then my example would be:
(tcp-connect . ((host . (foo.example . nil)) . ((port . (80 . nil)) .
nil)))

For the record, I'm just discovering the concept of cons pairs, I
based my previous S-expression work only on Rivest's proposed standard
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt


Hoping this helps,
Natacha