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From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: doc-view support for bookmark.el
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:34:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87odc9m351.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsl1maqvb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat\, 29 Dec 2007 02\:43\:08 -0500")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> cleanest thing would probably be an association list:
>>> 
>>> '((buffer BUFFER) (point POINT))
>>> 
>
>> If you decide to change this, please use a plist, as in
>
>>    '(:buffer BUFFER :point POINT ...)
>
> Why?

Alists certainly are more generally useful and versatile, but for this
kind of values, I find plists + keywords much simpler to use and
understand than alists.

E.g. it's trivial to make such a value:

     (list :buffer (current-buffer) :point (point))

However, if you decide an alist is better, shouldn't it be:

 '((buffer . BUFFER) (point . POINT))

using conses rather than lists as values ?

-- 
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-30  0:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-25 10:54 doc-view support for bookmark.el Tassilo Horn
2007-12-25 11:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-25 14:42   ` Tassilo Horn
2007-12-25 17:32     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-25 19:00       ` Tassilo Horn
2007-12-25 22:00       ` Tassilo Horn
2007-12-25 22:05         ` Nick Roberts
2007-12-25 22:25           ` Tassilo Horn
2007-12-25 23:07         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-26  8:22           ` Tassilo Horn
2007-12-26 11:52             ` bookmark support for doc-view and image-mode (was: doc-view support for bookmark.el) Tassilo Horn
2007-12-26 18:53         ` doc-view support for bookmark.el Karl Fogel
2007-12-26 17:08           ` Drew Adams
2007-12-26 20:21             ` Karl Fogel
2007-12-27  9:21           ` Tassilo Horn
2007-12-27 15:34             ` Drew Adams
2007-12-28  9:10             ` Karl Fogel
2007-12-28 23:44           ` Kim F. Storm
2007-12-29  7:40             ` Karl Fogel
2007-12-29  7:43             ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-30  0:34               ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2008-01-02  2:18                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-02  9:43                   ` Kim F. Storm
2008-01-02 20:22                     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-25 17:24 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-25 17:54 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-25 18:43   ` Tassilo Horn

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