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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 | Formatting lists to be readable. | |
| • Typing Lists | How GNU Emacs helps you type lists. |