From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: plist-put modification by side effect
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:22:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-4E5F86.13221701022009@mara100-84.onlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6441.1233508294.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.6441.1233508294.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> I want to modify a plist inside a function, in such a way that
> the modifications are available outside the function. Does Thi's
> answer mean that I should use something like nconc and not
> plist-put?
That still won't help for the case where the plist is empty when your
function is called, because there's nothing to nconc to.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-31 21:06 plist-put modification by side effect Dan Davison
2009-01-31 23:02 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2009-02-01 16:23 ` Dan Davison
[not found] ` <mailman.6441.1233508294.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-02-01 18:22 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2009-02-02 9:55 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.6500.1233568748.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-02-02 18:07 ` Andreas Politz
[not found] <mailman.6361.1233436001.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-31 22:46 ` Helmut Eller
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