From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: transient Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:30:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87368npxw4.fsf@bernoul.li> <87v9ljo5d0.fsf@bernoul.li> <87ftcnxu5m.fsf@bernoul.li> <83y2qezlpd.fsf@gnu.org> <83tv12zjx1.fsf@gnu.org> <20200429101755.GF24737@tuxteam.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="9926"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 30 04:31:12 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jTyym-0002Wn-7c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 04:31:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33034 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTyyl-0005Kw-AL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:31:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40396) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTyxy-0004J6-EK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:30:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41263) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTyxy-0001e1-4t; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:30:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jTyxu-0008FM-LM; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:30:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200429101755.GF24737@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248203 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > For people with some roots in Lisp culture (I'm one of them, > mind you), "alist" is obvious. It's an association list, duh. > For newcomers... not so much. Here's how the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual tells Lisp programmers about this. 5.8 Association Lists ===================== An “association list”, or “alist” for short, records a mapping from keys to values. It is a list of cons cells called “associations”: the CAR of each cons cell is the “key”, and the CDR is the “associated value”.(1) Is there a way to make this better? Where else could we do better? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)