Is normal cons? Is dot cons?
There is a case to want to know that the cons is normal cons or dotted cons. In detail, the cons is like ("A" "B") or ("A" . "B"). These cons have a difference how to handle right element. If the cons is like ("A" "B"), the function cadr can access the "B". If the cons is like ("A" . "B"), the function cdr can access the "B". But typep tells just CONS both of them.
So I wrote a small function to judge if the cons is like ("A" "B") or ("A" . "B").
(defun is-dot-cons (c) (declare (cons c)) (typep (cdr c) 'atom))
Here is an executed result.
? (is-dot-cons '(0 . 0)) T ? (is-dot-cons '(10 20)) NIL ?