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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 61293@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#61293: 30.0.50; [FR] Add `proper-list-p' and `plistp' to 2.7 Type Predicates section of the manual
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2023 10:20:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lelbm9p7.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83357ks1te.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 05 Feb 2023 15:02:05 +0200")

>>>>> On Sun, 05 Feb 2023 15:02:05 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
    >> I mostly expected it is exist, but it does not.
    >> Also, there is `nested-alist-p'. So, not having `alistp' feels awkward.

    Eli> Most probably because no one needed it, at least not too frequently.

One point here: Emacs allows 'improper' alists without complaining:

(alist-get 1 '((2 . 4)
               5
               (3 . 1)
               (1 . 7)))

=> 7

so weʼd have to be careful about how we defined `alistp'

Robert
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-06  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-05 12:01 bug#61293: 30.0.50; [FR] Add `proper-list-p' and `plistp' to 2.7 Type Predicates section of the manual Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-05 12:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-05 12:34   ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-05 13:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-06  9:20       ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2023-02-06 10:19         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-06 10:43           ` Basil Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-06 14:21       ` Ihor Radchenko

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