From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#34708: alist-get has unclear documentation Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:38:46 +0100 Message-ID: <871s3c14s9.fsf@web.de> References: <87wolhr5k6.fsf@web.de> <87y35xdu4w.fsf@web.de> <87mumcdu7f.fsf@web.de> <875zsyhakx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87fts2h9we.fsf@web.de> <871s3mh85d.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <874l8iebyz.fsf@web.de> <878sxui7bo.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87va0xcxco.fsf@web.de> <87h8chey12.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <60367f47-c0b0-45b4-8ccf-169044400a75@default> <8736ntmsy3.fsf@web.de> <3af3b645-84e0-4208-be48-810e8cd2cfa8@default> <87a7i01bk0.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="179759"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Eric Abrahamsen , 34708@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 12 16:41:13 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h3jWi-000ke7-HA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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d=web.de; s=dbaedf251592; t=1552405127; bh=aaCp2edLttpkGLzC6yUhemWDuLvvRZXuESRpTqdCkaQ=; h=X-UI-Sender-Class:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To; b=RkkNNCCJLtbF+TZaU5Easi9N2gRVj7sU8IQxcngGlnk6M06T+KC6XH1pZlyYwPTki naKJX/kYeiWkJWh2wxrgHVLMJMiRN7VrBj6N8YVWCg6jAezn7jF3L+Rw7d3v9fK12Q LQSV1dKWODR0wWjK6ffj4raQgzmK0RlOqfH04dp8= X-UI-Sender-Class: c548c8c5-30a9-4db5-a2e7-cb6cb037b8f9 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([88.67.111.211]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb101 [213.165.67.124]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LkPrz-1gVmNo18xf-00cRpf; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:38:47 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 12 Mar 2019 07:53:13 -0700 (PDT)") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:KpU2r5Mpsn2jPzuKIDnA3s5oR+NNddGpAXEO8NUYwBNn2JbtLIq D1IOHXBS13MGBClUwnutTVmoB3Z+e3pSGsenfh+U+tPffUXczG+396J6s9sVlGcfgrudD8k ZyMhOw9sPAReWhmGHtUxvcDy8yclMP5gaTnVHv2Q5LXGDlnF4P8lz8OqACq+d1MLFrsf4UM b2IivGcVhwfBXcvebr4Pw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:FYb5oqMMxk8=:1EIDLjjHBx8nEgHoimAj3f nNTayWqRCyHNiJuraWP5YIKmqp3diS5+QjBu5EJe03KJEusyPiz40QQ0SmHbK1is+GAOhj2zD bVtB2PCMDkCbDl65ps0mSIVd37c5zix0j+3XZsDNo3fdKRgFjAaXg00EbBG5YY9RZiNX03UGY 6s//ms1nf/H1THh9eFQ9Spj5neuW3WK4b0YsjdBdp585ghc3AHdeNFOzlilkn+Cv8wY+cqkFI Qk8a1d7WqZffJ5woLJrXURlSoBdcnUo/MLewiFEom1wrwXfwyFQmbPE32Vv041qffGPRP+y0X ZXcyJkgmQFWRXR5Th9pC01ooUH6nVaKg/xu/2KZ4YujOmwnGcuPjy1TyjLeDk26KyPtenLYaQ U/YXC2BW+z7SI+o/z4E/4Wa6RXBEprvKEVix/1LVRG8EnOpTzBPNPki1gaIF1KxkhIalK3VSj GkGQr0E96RAL09reZL1dcx9Hpo37mX5YNtDPzsEPw50FON6kYox2eiiDu4DXSgZny6kb6Ct+e nDfAqIqpQ57XnciN84rRH05jm53eaozgpbpixamypCw4C2Pi1EPATnonuNmmx6fIBD+6y1eBD QcVwRjua+lSv/jQuj36S6KvatJ/hbd/iRrxprg0kAIVc7lsG4Shr6KMyNY/OvaGUOy4rGYgjY uGj5RG1nPZt5C2788iSzpeSWrANMrApPmBTVI4uoSf75LNe0bf9+hYNW7KuwYgma1kXvf7PEz ybYoRIaTq02bvywxJdn4fLhouQQ1FWQEbqaz84K6cFAUYkPhAx6Jzri7w1CaN1ZI7jjIbdnv X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:156264 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > OK. Put it differently: it's worth documenting that updating an alist > entry with `setf' is a "destructive" operation: it can change list > structure. Dunno whether that is already said somewhere, but even if > it is, a reminder wouldn't hurt. But isn't that trivial? How else could we add associations? Michael.