On 7/27/07, Prakash Swaminathan <prakashswami@REDACTED> wrote: > Why is the value assigned to T-> "at" and not "97116"? "cat" is short-hand notation for the list [99, 97, 116]. The statement [H|T] = "cat" is equivalent to [H|T] = [99, 97, 116], which binds H to 99 and T to [97, 116] or "at".