Re: newbie question

dvlfrnd wrote: 
hi there,
here's a newbie question
im not a programmer and lisp is the only language i've ever worked
with,
but somehow i love it and i wanna learn.
i was giving myself exercises and came up with this,pardon my
programming inefficency and please help.
say there's a list of even length
(a b c d e f ......)

how do i turn this into
((a b) (c d) (e f)....)

simply how do i couple the elements?

i first tried to write a function:

(defun couple-first-two (lst)
  (list (first lst) (second lst)))

but couldn't find a way to apply it to the entire list.
i tried a recursive function,but it didnt give the output i wanted.

What was your failed recursive solution? Post the code and we can help get you used to recursion.


kt
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