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. -- Greg