Meaning of abbreviated terms

[Gregory Ewing]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> But that's not where plists came from, was it? As I understand it, the 
> plist data format was invented by Apple, and they called it a property 
> list.

The term "property list" can also refer to a data structure in Lisp:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node108.html

This has very little to do with Apple's use of the term, though.

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Greg