From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 47425@debbugs.gnu.org, mattiase@acm.org, nicolas@petton.fr,
p.stephani2@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
drew.adams@oracle.com
Subject: bug#47425: 26.3; `plist-get', `plist-put' and proposed TEST function
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 23:33:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1o6OSS-0005cM-BT@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czeuuil6.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 27 Jun 2022 19:22:45 +0200)
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CL-style keyword arguments to modify list operations are clunky.
Unless we implement them in an extra-complicated way, they will slow
down the usual case, too. I understand the motivation for proposing
this change, but let's solve it in a cleaner way that doesn't invite
copying the bad designs of CL.
Here are two ways that occur to me.
* The applications that want to compare property names with `equal'
could canonicalize those names. For instance, intern the strings
you want to use as property names, perhaps in a special obarray.
Then you can use `plist-get' and `plist-put' on them and get the
results you want.
* Define functions `plist-get-equal' and `plist-put-equal'.
Instead of complicating the definitions of widely used functions `plist-get'
and `plist-put', it will define two new functions that most users won't
need to pay attention to.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-29 3:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-26 22:13 bug#47425: 26.3; `plist-get', `plist-put' should accept a TEST function Drew Adams
2021-03-26 22:16 ` Drew Adams
2021-03-27 7:16 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-28 13:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-28 16:43 ` bug#47425: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-03-28 19:20 ` Philipp
2021-03-28 19:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-27 10:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-27 11:31 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-06-27 11:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-27 12:18 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-27 12:27 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-06-27 12:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-27 13:28 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-06-27 13:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-27 15:11 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-27 15:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-27 14:39 ` Drew Adams
2022-06-27 14:39 ` Drew Adams
2022-06-27 12:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-27 14:39 ` Drew Adams
2022-06-27 14:39 ` Drew Adams
2022-06-27 15:09 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-27 17:07 ` Drew Adams
2022-06-27 17:19 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-06-27 17:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-28 15:23 ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-28 15:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-29 3:33 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-06-29 5:11 ` bug#47425: 26.3; `plist-get', `plist-put' and proposed " Drew Adams
2022-06-30 3:10 ` Richard Stallman
2022-06-27 17:41 ` bug#47425: 26.3; `plist-get', `plist-put' should accept a " Drew Adams
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