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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it safe to modify a property list directly with PLIST-PUT?
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:51:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50907261051j3c7419eu71a6bdcddbd94dfb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bpn7wfct.fsf@iki.fi>

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Teemu Likonen<tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> On 2009-07-26 19:38 (+0300), Teemu Likonen wrote:
>
>>     ((:foo "one" :bar "two")
>>      (:foo "three" :bar "New value"))
>
>> The question: Is this reliable? Is it guaranteed that it will always
>> modify the list correctly? If not, how would you suggest doing it
>> instead?
>
> Ah, Emacs Lisp manual effectively says that it's not guaranteed. So,
> what would be the best way to modify single values in a list like the
> above?

setcar (maybe setcdr too).




  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-26 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-26 16:38 Is it safe to modify a property list directly with PLIST-PUT? Teemu Likonen
2009-07-26 16:58 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-07-26 17:51   ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2009-07-26 20:07 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-27  5:59   ` Teemu Likonen
2009-07-27  8:31     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-27 17:45       ` Teemu Likonen
2009-07-27 20:17         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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