Cons cell vs list vs alist in Lisp
[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Cons-Cell-Type.html] - - public:mzimmerm
Check the 3 links on the bottom. Alist is list of cons cells. Every list is also Alist: (list-utils-safe-equal '(1 2 3 4) '(1 . (2 3 4))) ==> true