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<h2 class="section">3.1 Lists</h2>

<p>The basic data structure used for representing virtual code and data in
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The <code>list</code> type is a pointer to a structure having a <code>head</code>
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<code>nil</code>, is represented by the C constant <code>NULL</code>. A tree of the
form <code>cons(<var>a</var>,<var>b</var>)</code> is represented in C as a list whose
<code>head</code> is the representation of <code><var>a</var></code> and whose
<code>tail</code> is the representation of <code><var>b</var></code>.
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<p>A number of other fields in the structure are maintained automatically
and should not be touched. For that matter, even the <code>head</code> and
<code>tail</code> fields should be considered read-only. Because of sharing,
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