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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to iterate over properties in a plist?
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2015 00:29:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mkkvu40.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvoais9dk5.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org>


On 2015-08-01, at 00:18, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

>> I need to iterate over all properties in a plist.
>
> First things first: go complain to whoever decided to use a plist
> instead of an alist.

Why?  I did consider both and decided that a plist will be better in my
use-case.  Reasons: it is short anyway (no more than 3-5 properties at
most), and I need to change it frequently (i.e., change the values of
individual properties).  This last operation seems much nicer in
a plist.  AFAIK, the "canonical" way to change a key-value pair in an
alist is to push the new one at the beginning.  In my case, the list
will grow quickly.

>         Stefan

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University



  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-31 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-31 21:42 How to iterate over properties in a plist? Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-31 22:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-07-31 22:29   ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-07-31 22:42     ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-01 13:34       ` Michael Heerdegen
     [not found]   ` <mailman.7705.1438381807.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-31 23:33     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-01 22:49       ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]       ` <mailman.7750.1438469396.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-04 10:15         ` plists, alists, and hashtables (was: How to iterate over properties in a plist?) Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-04 10:29           ` Nicolas Petton
     [not found]           ` <mailman.7809.1438684158.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-04 11:23             ` plists, alists, and hashtables Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-05  4:36           ` plists, alists, and hashtables (was: How to iterate over properties in a plist?) Rusi
2015-08-05  6:12             ` plists, alists, and hashtables Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-05  9:47               ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-05 12:20                 ` Rusi
2015-08-06 19:16                   ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.7892.1438888819.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-07 16:33                     ` Rusi
2015-08-05 17:24                 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-05 18:31                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-05 19:30                     ` Barry Margolin
2015-08-05 19:40                     ` Robert Thorpe
2015-08-05 21:11                     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-06 15:17                       ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-06 18:46                         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-06 20:19                           ` Drew Adams
2015-08-06 21:08                           ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-07  0:23                             ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-06 19:35                         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-05 13:48               ` Drew Adams
2015-08-06 19:12           ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]           ` <mailman.7890.1438888393.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-06 20:00             ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-06 20:57             ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-06 21:10               ` Drew Adams
     [not found]               ` <mailman.7902.1438895429.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-06 21:15                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-06 21:31               ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-07  1:53                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-07  7:34                   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-07 16:32                   ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.7941.1438965165.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-08  3:48                     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-08 13:42                       ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-08 14:51                         ` Rusi
2015-08-07  0:08               ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-07  2:14                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-07  7:53                   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-07 11:21                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-07 11:47                       ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-07 17:21                         ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-08-07 19:21                           ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]                           ` <mailman.7952.1438975314.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-08  3:52                             ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-07 16:35                       ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] <mailman.7702.1438378982.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-31 23:34 ` How to iterate over properties in a plist? Pascal J. Bourguignon

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