From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: PJ Weisberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to remove verbosity from the data passing mechanism using alist or plist ? Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:10:48 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87lj43at0i.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <87ei9tk72z.fsf@ambire.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291756309 10995 80.91.229.12 (7 Dec 2010 21:11:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 21:11:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 07 22:11:45 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 1PQ4p7-0000s4-0B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:11:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37598 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQ4p6-0004Bi-At for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:11:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60831 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQ4oK-0003xI-DH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:10:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQ4oI-0000cq-8e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:10:56 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpauth12.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.165.35]:57314) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQ4oH-0000cB-SJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:10:54 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 17447 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2010 21:10:50 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (74.125.82.169) by smtpauth12.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.35) with ESMTP; 07 Dec 2010 21:10:50 -0000 Original-Received: by wyj26 with SMTP id 26so395513wyj.0 for ; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:10:48 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.227.136.195 with SMTP id s3mr2442811wbt.49.1291756248842; Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:10:48 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.227.147.140 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:10:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:75540 Archived-At: On 12/7/10, Fren Zeee wrote: > Sorry, I did not understand it at all. It flew over my head. If this > is a subtle concept, I ask you to explain it with greater detail and > in smaller steps. I think he said the same thing I said, except he used a metaphore. ;-) I.e., you don't need a car at all if you don't wrap the value in a list to begin with. -PJ