10:52:30makomois there some sort of common name for a "cons whose cdr is not a list"
10:53:43makomothe context is that there's some code which can either returns such a cons or a list of such conses, and it's not enough to just use (consp ...) to detect the former case when lists are made up of conses
10:54:57makomoa little tricky and inelegant imo, but it is what it is
10:56:48makomoor perhaps if the cdr can be nil, then it would be a "cons whose cdr is not a cons"
10:57:44makomothe code is essentially using the "single cons" as a pair of 2 atoms, but technically the car could be a list and you would still be able to distinguish the two cases just fine
10:58:29makomoand i'm just wondering if there's some well-known name for such conses