From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to populate a property list? Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 09:44:58 -0700 Message-ID: <2un7gdF2ci2qsU1@uni-berlin.de> References: <2u78gpF279dr3U1@uni-berlin.de> <7ezn243zah.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> <1tCdneLTFrxuSB7cRVn-pA@speakeasy.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099327622 8637 80.91.229.6 (1 Nov 2004 16:47:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 16:47:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 01 17:46:59 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1COfKd-0005D8-00 for ; Mon, 01 Nov 2004 17:46:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1COfSd-0004iD-Qh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2004 11:55:15 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de k6r4rI+NBP2ruU0nlYPkwA2ZSjaRThUCtHImveHT0bDq7gbgA= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040916) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1tCdneLTFrxuSB7cRVn-pA@speakeasy.net> Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126294 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:21677 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:21677 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