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Lisp Lists
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   In Lisp, a list looks like this: `'(rose violet daisy buttercup)'.
This list is preceded by a single apostrophe.  It could just as well be
written as follows, which looks more like the kind of list you are
likely to be familiar with:

     '(rose
       violet
       daisy
       buttercup)

The elements of this list are the names of the four different flowers,
separated from each other by whitespace and surrounded by parentheses,
like flowers in a field with a stone wall around them.

Numbers Lists
List have numbers, other lists, in them.
Lisp Atoms
Elemental entities.
Whitespace in Lists
Formating lists to be readable.
Typing Lists
How GNU Emacs helps you type lists.

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