From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Replacement for `aput' from obsolete assoc.el? Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:52:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87txyrnhxi.fsf@web.de> <87oboytp45@ch.ristopher.com> <87haupwo6b.fsf@web.de> <871ulq44oj.fsf@gmail.com> <87pq9a7zab.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87mx4c97za.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1339289560 7073 80.91.229.3 (10 Jun 2012 00:52:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:52:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 10 02:52:37 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SdWOK-0000zM-JC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 02:52:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58079 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SdWOK-0001R5-HN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:52:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60702) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SdWOH-0001Ql-Ol for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:52:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SdWOF-0006Po-8y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:52:25 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:35395) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SdWOF-0006PD-5J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:52:23 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu09FxIfQ/2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIVAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSIHAW6CZBEA6MzgViDBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="190866509" Original-Received: from 69-196-135-208.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.135.208]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 09 Jun 2012 20:52:20 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E4FAF58F22; Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:52:19 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87mx4c97za.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:59:05 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150868 Archived-At: >> > 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