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From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: One more question about elisp
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:28:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vkbcphb.fsf@galatea.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2pr7vwesm.fsf@gmail.com

Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:

> Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Francis Moreau wrote:
>>> I'm now wondering what is the elisp way to create structured objects
>>> and how to access them later.
>>
>> in the cl package, there is defstruct, which does basically what your
>> C-example does:
>>
>> (defstruct person
>>   (age)
>>   (name))
>
> Actually I'm not trying to do elisp the C way, I'm just wondering the
> usual/right way to do this in elisp.

Lisp is a programming language which, like any other, has types, data
structures and functions,  to let you build abstract data type like in
any other programming language.



>> if you don't want to use that, elisp has hash tables and alists, which
>> are discussed in the elisp manual.
>
> So alist, hashmap ... ?

What is the question?


-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__


  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-06 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-06 16:46 One more question about elisp Francis Moreau
2009-11-06 16:55 ` Joost Kremers
2009-11-06 20:59   ` Francis Moreau
2009-11-06 21:28     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2009-11-07  1:42     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-08 15:20       ` Francis Moreau
2009-11-08 16:12         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-09 21:14           ` Francis Moreau
2009-11-08 19:53         ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-06 20:02 ` Xah Lee
2009-11-06 21:05   ` Francis Moreau
2009-11-06 21:13     ` David Kastrup
2009-11-07  1:40     ` LanX
2009-11-07  2:31       ` Barry Margolin
2009-11-07 14:41       ` Francis Moreau
2009-11-07 17:39         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-07 18:10         ` LanX
2009-11-08  9:53         ` tomas
     [not found]         ` <mailman.10267.1257674530.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-08 15:17           ` Francis Moreau
2009-11-08 16:01             ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-09 20:43               ` Francis Moreau
2009-11-08 17:06             ` tomas
2009-11-07  2:50     ` Giorgos Keramidas

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