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Often it is useful to test whether a given Scheme object is a list or not. List-processing procedures could use this information to test whether their input is valid, or they could do different things depending on the datatype of their arguments.
| list? x | Scheme Procedure |
| scm_list_p (x) | C Function |
Return #t iff x is a proper list, else #f.
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The predicate null? is often used in list-processing code to
tell whether a given list has run out of elements. That is, a loop
somehow deals with the elements of a list until the list satisfies
null?. Then, the algorithm terminates.
| null? x | Scheme Procedure |
| scm_null_p (x) | C Function |
Return #t iff x is the empty list, else #f.
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