emacs - Elisp destructuring-bind for cons cell? -

i'd do

(destructuring-bind (start end) (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'symbol)) 

but bounds-of-thing-at-point returns cons cell , not list, destructuring-bind doesn't work. work case?

since destructuring-bind macro cl package, may worthwhile common lisp documentation more examples.

this page shows syntax of macro. note (wholevar reqvars optvars . var). though i'm not sure cl version of destructuring-bind supports of less common cases (many keywords make sense when used common lisp macros / functions, don't have meaning in emacs lisp).

thus:

(destructuring-bind (start . end) (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'symbol) ;...) 

should work.