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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Jay Glascoe wrote: > hmm. I could make them destructive as well as functional. ... I mean, > "list" will still be destroyed -- it's finally reduced to (()) -- this is better: (set-car! el '()) (set-car! el el) => (#0#) the result is a list, its car is a pair, so after list->hash-table! list "list" will still be an association list, but it won't have ownership over any of its old associations. Jay Glascoe jglascoe@jay.giss.nasa.gov