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From: Erik Iverson <iverson@biostat.wisc.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: alists with precomputed variables
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:03:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4976ACB8.3030207@biostat.wisc.edu> (raw)

Dear all,

I'm an Elisp beginner, just learning over the last few days. Very naive 
question here, with hopefully a simple answer.

I would like to create an alist where one of the values is something 
that I compute earlier.  Example,

I naively thought that

(setq my-var 20)

(setq my-alist '((p1 . 10) (p2 . my-var)))

would give me

((p1 . 10) (p2 . 20))

, but it instead results in

((p1 . 10) (p2 . my-var))

How can I get what I expected?

If this is a wrong-headed question, please let me know.

Thanks,
Erik




             reply	other threads:[~2009-01-21  5:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-21  5:03 Erik Iverson [this message]
2009-01-21  5:13 ` alists with precomputed variables Drew Adams
     [not found] ` <mailman.5420.1232514814.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-21  5:49   ` Barry Margolin
2009-01-21  7:54     ` Drew Adams

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