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From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: How to populate a property list?
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 09:44:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2un7gdF2ci2qsU1@uni-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1tCdneLTFrxuSB7cRVn-pA@speakeasy.net>

Hattuari wrote:
 > I don't know what to make of this then:
 >
 > edition 2.9 of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, corresponding to GNU
 > Emacs version 21.3, ?8.4.1 Property Lists and Association Lists
 > ------------------------------------------
 > "Association lists (*note Association Lists::) are very similar to
 > property lists.  In contrast to association lists, the order of the
 > pairs in the property list is not significant since the property names
 > must be distinct."

The documentation focuses almost completely on property lists attached
to the property list cell of a symbol.  Only the "Other Plists" node
(aka Property Lists Outside Symbols) discusses disembodied property
lists (as the are known in other Lisp dialects).  Note that you will
never get a property with duplicate keys if you construct it solely with
put and plist-put.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-01 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-26 10:09 How to populate a property list? Hattuari
2004-10-26 12:28 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-10-27 20:38   ` Hattuari
2004-10-31 14:39     ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-10-26 15:24 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-10-30 12:05   ` Hattuari
2004-10-30 17:12     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-10-30 17:54       ` Hattuari
2004-10-30 20:17         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-10-31  8:32           ` Hattuari
2004-10-31  8:57             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-10-31 15:23             ` Hattuari
2004-11-01 16:44         ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2004-10-31 14:36 ` Kai Grossjohann

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