From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: assoc-delete-all Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 09:30:39 +0200 Message-ID: <42C7941F.2000203@student.lu.se> References: <42C7300C.8050104@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120376051 10982 80.91.229.2 (3 Jul 2005 07:34:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 07:34:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 03 09:34:02 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoyzI-0007Zf-Qg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 09:34:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Doz0R-0003p6-Pk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 03:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoyyL-00035P-P7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 03:33:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoyyJ-000340-Eh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 03:33:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoyyI-00032e-9X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 03:32:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.98] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Doz1b-0003yh-On for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 03:36:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.205.6) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42B813B0002334AD; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 09:30:40 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:40184 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40184 Juanma Barranquero wrote: > ... > >will do what you want, but it will still share conses with the >original list. Other implementations can use `copy-tree' or >`copy-alist', but really, there's no one answer that is good for every >situation. Kent M. Pitman did a wonderful article about this issue (he >was speaking of copy) a long time ago: "The Best of Intentions: EQUAL >Rights--and Wrongs--in Lisp", >http://www.nhplace.com/kent/PS/EQUAL.html > Thanks for the good lessons.