>
>You can not concatenate lists and record because you might get a 
>list or a record (1 case that I can think of) and this is not what 
>one wants in general.
>My first example indicated in how to concatenate a list with a list 
>of 1 record.
>Concatenating lists and records is problematic. End of story.

Having just had a problem, I'd have to accept the adjective "problematic."

Lots of good info in this thread; I'm glad I brought it up.

And I found another detail I should pass along for anyone else trying 
to deal with this stuff.


set recordList to {}
set oneRecord to {foo:1, bar:"hello"}
set end of recordList to oneRecord
set twoRecord to {foo:2, bar:"Goodbye"}
set end of recordList to twoRecord
recordList
--->{{foo:1, bar:"hello"}, {foo:2, bar:"Goodbye"}}

Now

repeat with aRecord in recordList
if foo of aRecord is 1
set stuffIneeded to aRecord
end if
end repeat
--> returns the entire list.

It has to be

set stuffIneeded to CONTENTS of aRecord

Fairly easy to figure out (I managed), but not the way ordinary lists behave.
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