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: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:50:20 -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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1339185034 30774 80.91.229.3 (8 Jun 2012 19:50:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 19:50:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Heerdegen , Vitalie Spinu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 08 21:50:32 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 1Sd5CW-0000Hc-IZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:50:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54973 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sd5CW-00042l-9S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:50:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38547) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sd5CT-00042g-7h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:50:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sd5CR-0004Vz-Oo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:50:24 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:58567) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sd5CR-0004Vj-LM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:50:23 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu09MCpw9/2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIVAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSIHAW6CZBEA6MzgViDBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="190734035" Original-Received: from 76-10-156-61.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.156.61]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 08 Jun 2012 15:50:21 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id AA7E9599D1; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 15:50:20 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87pq9a7zab.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:39:56 +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:150844 Archived-At: >> This is essential. A lot of packages store settings in alists, and there >> is no handy function to alter the values inside those. > 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? Stefan "who doesn't like plists much, but must recognize he's not very familiar with their API"