Elisp: Sequence Type

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

What is Sequence Type

Sequence and Array are not actual datatypes in elisp. They are grouping names for other actual datatypes.

Here's a hierachy chart of elisp's most important list-like datatypes.

emas lisp sequence type
Most commonly used list-like data structure in elisp. (note: there's also char-table and bool-vector datatypes, which are sub-types of vector. They are more specialized.)

Elisp, sequence functions

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