From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ? Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:18:27 +0100 Message-ID: <877hflk6oc.fsf@ambire.localdomain> References: <87lj43at0i.fsf@ambire.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291731888 6471 80.91.229.12 (7 Dec 2010 14:24:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 14:24:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Fren Zeee Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 07 15:24:42 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PPyTC-0001CV-5q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:24:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56099 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PPyTB-00084s-Du for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:24:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53463 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PPySL-0007e9-BW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:24:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PPyRt-0007LD-OW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:23:49 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp205.alice.it ([82.57.200.101]:40736) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PPyRt-0007JH-FO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:23:21 -0500 Original-Received: from ambire.localdomain (95.244.65.84) by smtp205.alice.it (8.5.124.08) id 4C1A26450C506191; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 15:23:17 +0100 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire.localdomain with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PPyN9-0003RC-LI; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:18:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Fren Zeee's message of "Mon, 6 Dec 2010 07:41:21 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75530 Archived-At: () Fren Zeee () Mon, 6 Dec 2010 07:41:21 -0800 > less piecewise-constructive and more table-oriented. I would certainly need a toy example or even ask for taking this example and showing me how to do it. I am not familiar with this table-oriented approach. I would rather help you understand those words than show you how to apply them. (This is more work for both of us, initially, but less work in the long run.) What do you think of when you read them?