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"Karl Chen" <quarl.newsgroup@REMOVE_ME_quarl.org> writes:
> Hi, I wrote these two functions which may be useful to others:

Your terminology is incorrect -- looking at your code, it seems to be
manipulating `alists', not `plists'.

[An alist is a list of cons cells, with the car of each being the key,
and the cdr the value; a plist is a list of alternating keys and values.]

-Miles
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