Re: alist-get in Emacs 24?

[Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> OK, so I did it by hand (though without delq or push).  I am not
> extremely happy with my solution, though, since in the setter function
> I have to pass the alist variable name as a symbol.  (This is needed
> because I might want to use it to introduce a new key-value pair into
> the list.)  Does anyone have any suggestion for enhancing my solution?

First let me say, doing it like that is not bad in any regard.

Second, yes, you could modify the list structure, but this can't be done
if the alist is empty, because the empty (a)list is not a cons.  At least
in this case, your setter would still have to receive a symbol.


Michael.