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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org>
Subject: Re: Structured data in Emacs Lisp
Date: 26 Apr 2005 22:35:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k6mo6ath.fsf@buug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mzrl4gp7.fsf@lse.ac.uk>


Denis> You could use a plist:
Denis> 
Denis> (:key1 1 :key2 2)
Denis> 
Denis> Then to get a particular value:
Denis> 
Denis> (getf '(:key1 1 :key2 2) :key1) => 1
Denis> 

Jim> Or you could use defstruct [also in 'cl]

I don't know how many different structures you have.  If not too many, I
would just use lists (or even better, vectors) and for each field define
an accessor macro:

(defsubst get-key1 (result) (nth 0 result))

or

(defsubst get-key1 (result) (aref result 0))

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-27  5:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-26 15:20 Structured data in Emacs Lisp PT
2005-04-26 15:28 ` Denis Bueno
     [not found] ` <mailman.3069.1114529432.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-26 15:57   ` PT
2005-04-26 16:59     ` Jim Ottaway
2005-04-27  5:35       ` Ian Zimmerman [this message]
2005-04-26 16:03 ` Phillip Lord
2005-04-26 17:21   ` PT
2005-04-27 11:13     ` Phillip Lord
2005-04-27 15:27 ` Klaus Berndl
2005-04-27 18:38   ` PT
2005-05-09 21:39 ` Christopher C. Stacy
2005-05-10 10:05   ` Phillip Lord

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