Container data types are data types which are used to hold and organize
other data. Since lisp is a dynamically typed language, any container
data type can hold any other data type or a mix of other data types.
This is contrary to the case for C or C++ where all data in
a typical container must be of the same type.
As a convention do all names of the functions handling a certain
container data type begin in <type>-, i.e. the functions
implementing the container data type foo all start with
foo-.
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