I was wondering if anyone could tell me what the proper way to pass a list
in lisp to a function defined using defun.
I am basically trying to setup something like this :

(defun foo  (x)  
        (first (x)))

Basically I want to pass a list to the function and have it return the
first element of the list, and do any other functions that can be done on
lists. Basically after i load the lsp file i want to be able to type

(foo'(one two three))

and have foo perform operation on this list.
Any help on this  would be much appreciated.
Please reply to the email addresss becuase my new
server timeouts articles somewhat quickly.

SD

The same way you pass anything else.

Just refer to X as a variable:

(defun foo (x)
  (first x))

This is something really basic.  I'm curious how you could be doing
*anything* in Lisp if you didn't know this.

When you write (x) in your function, you're trying to call a function named
X rather than use the value of the variable.

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