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From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 35206@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35206: [PATCH] Misleading `list-get' argument description
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 13:45:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <75D164EF-3F6F-4E45-ADCB-7A6C25DF4453@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29604A23-C01D-4DE5-9D40-493EAC445056@acm.org>

> 
> Comparison of KEY against the car of each ALIST element
> is made using TESTFN, or `eq' if nil or omitted.

If no knowledge whatsoever of alists can be assumed on the part of the reader, perhaps this would be better:

   "Return the value associated with KEY in ALIST.
+The value is the cdr of the first element in ALIST whose car is equal to KEY.
 If KEY is not found in ALIST, return DEFAULT.
-Use TESTFN to lookup in the alist if non-nil.  Otherwise, use `assq'.
+Equality is defined by TESTFN or by `eq' if nil or omitted.






  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-09 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-09 10:34 bug#35206: [PATCH] Misleading `list-get' argument description Mattias Engdegård
2019-04-09 11:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-09 11:26   ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-04-09 11:45     ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
2019-04-09 14:41       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-09 14:59         ` Mattias Engdegård

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