From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Replacement for `aput' from obsolete assoc.el?
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:52:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7gvgdm67.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mx4c97za.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:59:05 +0900")
>> > It's precisely for this reason that XEmacs recommends plists over
>> > alists. Nobody will shoot you for using an alist, but plists do have
>> > a better API.
>> Hmm... would you care to give some example?
> Of course, it's all a matter of taste; since you ask, I'll advocate
> mine. ;-)
I didn't see much ion their which addresses the issue of setting
elements in plists (other than plist-put which doesn't seem to be
significantly better than (push (cons a b) c)).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-10 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-04 16:46 Replacement for `aput' from obsolete assoc.el? Michael Heerdegen
2012-06-05 3:27 ` Christopher Schmidt
2012-06-05 17:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-05 19:31 ` Michael Heerdegen
2012-06-05 22:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-08 7:57 ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-06-08 12:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-06-08 19:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-09 8:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-06-09 9:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-06-09 10:13 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-06-10 12:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-06-09 16:11 ` Drew Adams
2012-06-09 16:17 ` Drew Adams
2012-06-09 11:32 ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-06-10 12:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-06-09 16:10 ` Drew Adams
2012-06-10 0:52 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-06-10 13:48 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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