Emacs Dotted Pair Syntax Improvement

Question

I want to create a dotted pair of variables in Emacs Lisp. But the only way I can find to do it seems really unwieldy. As a simplified example:

(let ((width (calculate-width)
      (height (calculate-height))
  `(,width . ,height))

This backquote, double-unquote syntax smells to me, but I can't find a neater way and my Google-fu is failing me.

Is there a better way to construct a dotted pair when the values are variables?

(For clarification, it must be a dotted pair. A straight list won't do.)

Answer 1

You could use cons:

(let ((width (calculate-width))
      (height (calculate-height))
   (cons width height))