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* Re: master ae4171efdc6: Support numeric indexing in let-alist
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@ 2024-09-19  8:13   ` Robert Pluim
  2024-09-27  6:53     ` Stefan Kangas
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Robert Pluim @ 2024-09-19  8:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Spencer Baugh; +Cc: emacs-devel

>>>>> On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:56:05 -0400 (EDT), Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> said:

    Stefan> branch: master
    Stefan> commit ae4171efdc60dfa53aa404e5926f5165dbf98d59
    Stefan> Author: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
    Stefan> Commit: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>

    Stefan>     Support numeric indexing in let-alist
    
    Stefan>     let-alist is very useful.  But sometimes an alist contains a list in
    Stefan>     the middle, which contains yet more alists.  Previously, this was
    Stefan>     somewhat painful to deal with, and required something like:
    
    Stefan>     (let-alist alist
    Stefan>       (let-alist (nth 0 .a)
    Stefan>         (let-alist (nth 3 .b)
    Stefan>            .c)))
    
    Stefan>     Now, the following works:
    
    Stefan>     (let-alist alist
    Stefan>       .a.0.b.3.c)
    
    Stefan>     * lisp/emacs-lisp/let-alist.el (let-alist--access-sexp): Properly
    Stefan>     parse numbers to handle lists.  (Bug#66509)
    Stefan>     (let-alist--list-to-sexp): Use nth to handle numbers.
    Stefan>     (let-alist): Update docs.

Would it be possible to update the elisp manual as well (and maybe add
an entry to NEWS)?

Robert
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* Re: master ae4171efdc6: Support numeric indexing in let-alist
  2024-09-19  8:13   ` master ae4171efdc6: Support numeric indexing in let-alist Robert Pluim
@ 2024-09-27  6:53     ` Stefan Kangas
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Kangas @ 2024-09-27  6:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Robert Pluim, Spencer Baugh; +Cc: emacs-devel

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

>>>>>> On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:56:05 -0400 (EDT), Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> said:
>
>     Stefan> branch: master
>     Stefan> commit ae4171efdc60dfa53aa404e5926f5165dbf98d59
>     Stefan> Author: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
>     Stefan> Commit: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
>
>     Stefan>     Support numeric indexing in let-alist
>
> Would it be possible to update the elisp manual as well (and maybe add
> an entry to NEWS)?

Sorry for the late reply here.  Let's follow this up in the bug report.



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