From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: plist-based package.el (was Re: cl-defstruct-based package.el, now with ert tests and no external tar!)
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:06:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878v2oxwhr.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: da0e0636-9bf9-4e99-b2fa-d1f146de1701@default
On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 10:56:54 -0700 (PDT) Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> plists are OK as a "UI" elements (e.g. like the CL style :key arguments
>> in macro and function calls). But as data-structures, they suck rocks.
>> The only other data structure that comes to mind as being even worse are
>> strings.
DA> Hm. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/10/universal-design-pattern.html.
DA> And then there's JSON... And "big data" generally...
DA> Maybe you meant something specific about Emacs-Lisp plists?
DA> Or were you really speaking generally about key+value pairs?
plists as a sequence of odd=key and even=value don't actually associate
the key with the value, unlike hashtables and alists.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-05 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-04 22:44 plist-based package.el (was Re: cl-defstruct-based package.el, now with ert tests and no external tar!) Daniel Hackney
2013-06-04 23:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-06-05 14:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-05 17:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-05 17:56 ` Drew Adams
2013-06-05 18:06 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2013-06-06 9:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-06-06 12:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-07 3:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-06-07 13:03 ` opaque data types (was: plist-based package.el (was Re: cl-defstruct-based package.el, now with ert tests and no external tar!)) Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-07 13:27 ` opaque data types Christopher Schmidt
2013-06-07 14:11 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-07 15:44 ` Christopher Schmidt
2013-06-07 16:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-08 9:19 ` Christopher Schmidt
2013-06-10 3:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-07 16:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-07 17:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-08 6:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-06-08 6:28 ` opaque data types [revise and resend] Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-06-10 4:00 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-05 1:34 ` plist-based package.el (was Re: cl-defstruct-based package.el, now with ert tests and no external tar!) Stefan Monnier
2013-06-06 1:31 ` Daniel Hackney
2013-06-08 6:47 ` Rand User
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