Re: Having trouble deleting first item in list

"jonathon" <j_mckitrick@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>This version of the function works as expected. But when I uncomment
>the one line and comment out the setf line, it will never delete the
>first (zeroth) entry. Why is this?

Because it cannot destructively remove the first element of a list.
You'd have to adjust the references in all variables pointing to that
list instead to do so.
If you visualize it on paper with the list in box-notation, you'll see
why this is so.

mkb.
.

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