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From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Adding assoc-delete-all / rassoc-delete-all
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:39:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9bkjibm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)

Hi all,

I've just got aware of `assq-delete-all' which could be a convenient
function to get rid of some entry in an alist.  However, if the alist
entries start with a string, you need to use something awkward like

  (assq-delete-all
   (car (assoc "Biber" TeX-command-list))
   TeX-command-list)

so that the string "Biber" is not only equal but identical.

So I'm voting for adding a function `assoc-delete-all' which is just
like `assq-delete-all' except that it does the comparison with `equal'
instead of `eq'.  Then the above becomes just

  (assoc-delete-all "Biber" TeX-command-list)

For symmetry, I'd also add `rassoc-delete-all' to the existing
`rassq-delete-all'.

Would that be ok?

Bye,
Tassilo



             reply	other threads:[~2014-04-17 11:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-17 11:39 Tassilo Horn [this message]
2014-04-17 11:55 ` Adding assoc-delete-all / rassoc-delete-all Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-17 12:29   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-17 13:36     ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-17 12:35   ` Tassilo Horn
2014-04-17 13:15     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-17 13:40     ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-17 15:17 ` Teemu Likonen

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