Let's say I have the following list: (A B . D).
How I would reproduce this only by using list function ?
(list 'A 'B '. 'D) is not working.
You cannot. The constructor to create lists are cons. Proper lists are just the empty list or a chain of one or more cons where the last one has the empty list as the cdr. list only creates proper lists. Eg.
(list 'a 'b 'c) is a function that does (cons 'a (cons 'b (cons c '()))).
(a b . d) is created with (cons 'a (cons 'b 'd)). It is not a proper list since it is terminated by d and not nil. Thus it is impossible to create this structure with list.