From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Okamsn <okamsn@protonmail.com>
Cc: 50927@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50927: Considering only entries with unique keys in map.el?
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 14:48:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0iwx660.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9fda32d4-5c09-a047-18aa-a792211ffa06@protonmail.com> (okamsn@protonmail.com's message of "Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:55:21 +0000")
Okamsn <okamsn@protonmail.com> writes:
> Some kinds of maps, such as alists and plists, can contain duplicate
> keys. These duplicates are effectively ignored in functions like
> `map-elt`, but are not ignored in functions like `map-do` or `map-length`.
As others have noted, this is part of how alists (etc) work, and we
can't change that -- it would break tons of code.
If you don't want duplicate keys, then you should only use functions
like `map-insert' etc to work on the maps.
So I'm closing this bug report.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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2021-10-01 0:55 bug#50927: Considering only entries with unique keys in map.el? Okamsn via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-01 1:56 ` bug#50927: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-01 2:17 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-01 12:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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