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[dewitt]

Sure, it does have cons, but your second argument wasn't a sequence. Try:

  > (cons 'a ['b])
  (a b)

  > (doc cons)
  -------------------------
  clojure.core/cons
  ([x seq])
  Returns a new seq where x is the first element and seq is the rest.

[TazeTSchnitzel → dewitt]

That's not a cons, that's a linked list. As tokenrove mentions, a cons in a Lisp is just a tuple (`cons` is the name of the type and the function constructing it). It can contain any two values.

[tokenrove → dewitt]

In other Lisps, a cons can be an arbitrary pair.