So as far as I understand it you create association lists that look like
'((rose . red)
(violet . violet)
(chrysanthemum . who-knows))
My question is, what do you do if you want rose, violet, etc., to be evaluated before they're put into the alist?
For example, for normal lists you can do
(list 1 2 3 4)
instead of
'(1 2 3 4)
How do you replicate this functionality? I'm new to elisp and Emacs, so please forgive any errors or misnomers.
Here you go:
(list (cons rose red)
(cons violet violet)
(cons chrysanthemum who-knows))
each flower should be bound to a value.
An alist is just a list. So, you can use all the normal list-constructing functions like cons or list. Or, if you want to write one that looks like a constant, you can use backquote:
`((,(rose) . red)
(,(violet) . violet))
This will evaluate rose and violet at construction time and substitute the results.
